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PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312638361

ISBN-139780312638368

eBay Product ID (ePID)80028085

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Book TitleBeverly Hills Adjacent

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

TopicContemporary Women

GenreFiction

AuthorJessica Hendra, Jennifer Steinhauer

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Reviews"Crisp, fast and sharp, Beverly Hills Adjacenthas an ear for the crazy cadences of Hollywood, marriage and modern life."--Meg Wolitzer, author ofThe Ten-Year Nap"A smart novel about a Hollywood couple trying to survive TV pilot season."--People StyleWatch"The authors' sense of humor gives this book plenty of pep."--Publishers Weekly "A laugh-out-loud novel about the skewed mores and hungry hearts of Hollywood."--People "Steinhauer and Hendra have a gift for Hollywood vapidspeak."--New York Times Book Review, "Crisp, fast and sharp, Beverly Hills Adjacent has an ear for the crazy cadences of Hollywood, marriage and modern life."--Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap "A smart novel about a Hollywood couple trying to survive TV pilot season."-- People StyleWatch "The authors' sense of humor gives this book plenty of pep."-- Publishers Weekly "A laugh-out-loud novel about the skewed mores and hungry hearts of Hollywood."-- People "Steinhauer and Hendra have a gift for Hollywood vapidspeak."-- New York Times Book Review "Like Little Children gone Hollywood...a terrific setup...the writing is so consistently good, at times lyrical...very funny scenes and memorable characters."-- Los Angeles Times, "Crisp, fast and sharp, Beverly Hills Adjacenthas an ear for the crazy cadences of Hollywood, marriage and modern life."--Meg Wolitzer, author ofThe Ten-Year Nap"A smart novel about a Hollywood couple trying to survive TV pilot season."--People StyleWatch"The authors' sense of humor gives this book plenty of pep."--Publishers Weekly "A laugh-out-loud novel about the skewed mores and hungry hearts of Hollywood."--People "Steinhauer and Hendra have a gift for Hollywood vapidspeak."--New York Times Book Review"LikeLittle Childrengone Hollywood...a terrific setup...the writing is so consistently good, at times lyrical...very funny scenes and memorable characters."--Los Angeles Times , "Crisp, fast and sharp, Beverly Hills Adjacent has an ear for the crazy cadences of Hollywood, marriage and modern life."--Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap "A smart novel about a Hollywood couple trying to survive TV pilot season."-- People StyleWatch "The authors' sense of humor gives this book plenty of pep."-- Publishers Weekly "A laugh-out-loud novel about the skewed mores and hungry hearts of Hollywood."-- People "Steinhauer and Hendra have a gift for Hollywood vapidspeak."-- New York Times Book Review "Like Little Children gone Hollywood...a terrific setup...the writing is so consistently good, at times lyrical...very funny scenes and memorable characters."-- Los Angeles Times

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisDuring pilot season, June Dietz's husband Mitch Gold becomes another man--a man who doesn't notice her delicious Farmers Market homemade dinners, who mumbles responses around the tooth-whitening trays in his mouth, who is consumed with envy for his fellow television actors, who pants for a return phone call from his agent. And who wants to be married to an abject, paranoid, oblivious mess? Possibly not June, whose job as a poetry professor at UCLA makes her in but not of Los Angeles, with its illogical pecking order and relentless tribal customs. Even their daughter Nora's allegedly innocent world isn't immune from one upsmanship: while Mitch is bested for acting jobs by the casually confident (and so very L.A.) Willie Dermot, June is tormented by Willie's insufferably uptight wife Larissa and the other stay-at-home exercisers in the preschool.Could Rich Friend be the answer? Smart, age-appropriate, bookish--and a wildly successful television producer--Rich focuses on June the way nobody has since she moved to Los Angeles, and there's nothing for June to do but wallow in what she's been missing. But what's the next step? How does a regular person decide between husband and lover, family and fantasy?Set in a Los Angeles you haven't read about before, "Beverly Hills Adjacent" is that rare thing: a laugh-out-loud novel with heart.