Please Cooperate - Couverture souple

Harper, Jeffrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798497415179

Editeur : Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

Many people would die to live in a Manhattan apartment. Somewhat fewer die for one. So much comes down to real estate.” So begins Please Cooperate, a comedy of manners about social class, money and real estate – and how we live now. Narrated by Derek Guston, a psychotherapist at a Bronx psychiatric clinic, clinging to his modest Manhattan studio apartment and his dissolving middle-class life, Please Cooperate tells how one little building’s seemingly minor problems, like drips in a leaking roof – dear God, the roof – accumulate and explode in a conflagration of class conflict, enmity, destruction and murder. Please Cooperate follows the lives of neighbors and friends in the perfect Upper West Side Manhattan co-operative brownstone – a building where middle-class people once bought affordable apartments before the market exploded, where neighbors share their keys, apartments, dinners, vacations, their beds – their lives – a place where everyone cooperates for the common good. Until they don’t. Please Cooperate is a lament for, a love letter to – and a comedy of bad manners about – middle-class life in New York and America.

In exquisite, often hilarious detail, the novel portrays how a once happy building of caring supportive neighbors come together in mutual assistance for the Manhattan wedding of one of the building’s residents and assorted acts of kindness. But the recent arrival of rich young owners with trust funds changes everything. Documenting the multiple manifestations of social class and power, Please Cooperate follows the building’s residents as the mutual support and neighborliness they once knew unravels. Slowly and inexorably, the residents are engulfed in recriminations, accusations and lawsuits – and the destruction of their home, as the entitlement and abuse of the rich and powerful new owners increasingly threatens the building with collapse, aggravating the residents to escalating rage, self-destruction and violence.

Friendships and love relationships fray until acts of betrayal and hostility – and the demonstrations of the power of money and social class – transform forever the lives of the characters and their once perfect lives together. Sweet, funny and moving, Please Cooperate is a socially observant, emotionally warm, resonant and tartly wrought novel fans of Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney and Nick Hornby will want to add to their libraries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798497415179
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible