People Like Us
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: September 8, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780345521040
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- Genre Fiction -- Family Saga; Literature & Fiction -- Literary; Mystery & Thrillers -- Thrillers -- Psychological & Suspense
First sentence: Except for July and August, when everyone was away from the city, Maisie Verdurin, the art dealer, entertained in her Park Avenue apartment at large monthly dinner parties that had become so significant a part of the social life of New York that even people in the subways, at least those people in the subways who read the social columns, knew her name.