A Certain Age

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 317, [5]. Laminated pictorial boards, grey silk ribbon attached. Board design by William Webb. As issued, without a dustwrapper.

Signed in silver ink on the black front free endpaper by the author.

When Florence Collins sets out for a weekend in the Hamptons, her life spirals into a disastrous series of mishaps. A tragi-comic novel about the sad plight of a woman of a certain age on the make in Manhattan. Author is often referenced as one of the main "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, and Jay McInerney. "Janowitz has penned a brutal update of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, accurately analyzing the social codes and economic hierarchy that functions in the New York she knows, as Wharton did a century ago." –Detour