num_pages: 352
description: When two daughters are left to their own devices, they soon wreak havoc on their father's wealthy Boston household.  While Susan carries on an affair with her psychiatrist and is blackmailed by the butler, Claire turns the third floor into a rehabilitation center for prostitutes.  And that's just the start of the dizzying round of events that make up this wickedly funny satire on contemporary American life.
language: English
title: The Melodramatists: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Melodramatists: A Novel (Volume 1)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: University of Missouri