Everybody Rise
An extraordinary debut novel by New York Times reporter Stephanie Clifford—a Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century mixed with Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep and Amor Towles's Rules of Civility.It’s 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and privileged, and a new generation of heirs and strivers are...
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An extraordinary debut novel by New York Times reporter Stephanie Clifford—a Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century mixed with Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep and Amor Towles's Rules of Civility.It’s 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and privileged, and a new generation of heirs and strivers are jockeying for social power and discovering that class, especially on the Upper
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781250077172 (1250077176)
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
I like to check out reviews on booklikes and goodreads after I read a book, to see if I am on the same page as my friends or others with tastes similar to mine. Sometimes I find they loved something I didn’t, and vice versa. On this book, I find that I am right in line with the rating and response t...
Everybody Rise, Stephanie Clifford, author, Katherine Kellgren, narrator Upwardly mobile 26 year old Evelyn Beegan is on the rise, but the rarified atmosphere of the Gatsbyesque world she wanted to join soon began to corrupt her moral sense of judgment. To hobnob with the rich and famous and accompl...
Everybody Rise, the debut novel by Stephanie Clifford, is a familiar story of old money and an outsider wanting to fit in. It is a character study about a young woman whose desire to fit in devolves into a web of lies. The book proceeds as I expect and ends as I expect with no real surprises. It's a...
3.5 stars. While I don't think this was an extraordinary debut, as described in the blurbs, it was okay. I wanted to put it down several times during the first third part of it, but I stayed with it. It did get better, but I didn't feel as though it got great. I mean, I was rooting for Evelyn all th...
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