{"product_id":"close-relations-isbn-9780061735318","title":"Close Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/em\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eCompromising Positions \u003c\/em\u003ereturns at her sexy and satiric best, with a novel that blends sex, politics, and family craziness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcia Green is a sophisticated, witty, successful New Yorker, a whiz of a political speech writer, a woman who finds a smoke-filled room more intoxicating than a magnum of champagne. Her private life is a little less bubbly. She has a passionate but not very promising live-in relationship with her boss’s dashing chief of staff, Jerry Morrissey. He offers her only a good time—but what a time!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan Marcia resist when a new man arrives on the scene, a man who is exactly the sort her family wants her to marry—bright, kind, attractive, wealthy, and charming—in short, too good to be real? Marcia is determined to find the right kind of man, as well as the right kind of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompelling and entertaining, \u003cem\u003eClose Relations\u003c\/em\u003e is about the things that are vital to all of us, about men and women, about sex, money, work, family values and about what we need most in today’s world—close relations.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIt was a situation from which half-hour television comedies are made. \"\u003cem\u003eMarcia!\u003c\/em\u003e In tonight's episode, Marcia Green's warm and winning and wise and wonderful Jewish family reminds her that she is thirty-five, divorced, and childless.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's Marcia on her close relations. True, she's one of the best speechwriters around in the tough world of New York's smoke-filled rooms, but her family wants something else for her. No, not that Irish person she's living with. Another doctor, or at least a dentist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Marcia claims she's happy, getting plenty of the two things that exhilarate her most: sex and politics. She's not looking for commitment, and certainly not looking for a wealthy Harvard-educated man-about-town who is every mother's dream. Yet as wise mothers everywhere are fond of saying: \u003cem\u003eyou never know\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“DELIGHTFUL” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“AN EXHILARATING HIGH....Where does one go next to find characters like Marcia, with her endearing, brittle-brave commentaries, with her wit and honest observations” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A RISIBLE ROMP THROUGHOUT...Delightful...witty...astringent and candid—the snappy dialogue yielding up laughs on every page, the love story tender and satisfying, the plot pulsing with adrenaline” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887901798629,"sku":"NP9780061735318","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061735318.jpg?v=1730227696","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/close-relations-isbn-9780061735318","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}