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Abingdons
Where jeans are $75 and love is free. Where stars set trends, celebrites throw fits, and the beautiful people get more beautiful. Abingdon's. Where glitter is the weapon and power is the prize that threatens three of New York's best kept secrets!
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First published January 1, 1979
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Michael R. French
27 books120 followers#1 Amazon best selling author Michael French graduated from Stanford University and Northwestern University. He is a businessman and author who divides his time between Santa Barbara, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is an avid high-altitude mountain trekker, as well as a collector of first editions of twentieth-century fiction.
He has published twenty-four books, including fiction, young adult fiction, biographies, and art criticism. His novel, Abingdon’s, was a bestseller and a Literary Guild Alternate Selection. His young adult novel, Pursuit, was awarded the California Young Reader Medal.
The Reconstruction of Wilson Ryder was published January 2013.
Mountains Beyond Mountains was published April 2013.
Once Upon a Lie was published March 2016.
He has published twenty-four books, including fiction, young adult fiction, biographies, and art criticism. His novel, Abingdon’s, was a bestseller and a Literary Guild Alternate Selection. His young adult novel, Pursuit, was awarded the California Young Reader Medal.
The Reconstruction of Wilson Ryder was published January 2013.
Mountains Beyond Mountains was published April 2013.
Once Upon a Lie was published March 2016.
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January 3, 2022
Wow, am I really the first one to write a review for this book? But it's in hardcover and everything! That's sobering.
I picked this up last year in a free library that no longer exists with plans for it to be my cozy Christmas read this December. I even planned to read it concurrently with the dates the story takes place (December 15-17) but that part of the plan never materialized. Anyway, there's nothing really cozy about it, and frankly it could be a whole lot more Christmassy.
While it is about a department store during the busy Christmas season the tone is more soap opera than romance, an airport-bookstore-thriller with a dash of The Towering Inferno . It's completely ridiculous and super 70's and a fun, trashy read with plenty of lurid twists and abrupt personality changes, not to mention the point of view of everyone from a lowly Chekhovian boiler worker who sounds like Mario the Plumber to a flamboyant primadonna window decorator. The author's got some balls starting the novel off with a snoozy magazine article and the potential assassination of the Canadian Prime Minister is not a super exciting high stake (sorry Canada) but these are small, funny faults.
Coincidentally, it's like another totally forgotten piece of 70's ephemera I discovered recently, the made-for-TV kitchfest Terrace. In fact, Abingdon's would have made a great TV miniseries starring Hal Linden, Lloyd Bochner, Lou Jacobi, Shelley Winters, Joan Collins & etc.
I picked this up last year in a free library that no longer exists with plans for it to be my cozy Christmas read this December. I even planned to read it concurrently with the dates the story takes place (December 15-17) but that part of the plan never materialized. Anyway, there's nothing really cozy about it, and frankly it could be a whole lot more Christmassy.
While it is about a department store during the busy Christmas season the tone is more soap opera than romance, an airport-bookstore-thriller with a dash of The Towering Inferno . It's completely ridiculous and super 70's and a fun, trashy read with plenty of lurid twists and abrupt personality changes, not to mention the point of view of everyone from a lowly Chekhovian boiler worker who sounds like Mario the Plumber to a flamboyant primadonna window decorator. The author's got some balls starting the novel off with a snoozy magazine article and the potential assassination of the Canadian Prime Minister is not a super exciting high stake (sorry Canada) but these are small, funny faults.
Coincidentally, it's like another totally forgotten piece of 70's ephemera I discovered recently, the made-for-TV kitchfest Terrace. In fact, Abingdon's would have made a great TV miniseries starring Hal Linden, Lloyd Bochner, Lou Jacobi, Shelley Winters, Joan Collins & etc.
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October 27, 2015what happened of the story in chapter 1?
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