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Elements of Style: A Novel  
Author: Wendy Wasserstein
ISBN: 1400076870
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   Book Review

From Publishers Weekly
Nixon (Sex and the City) crafts tones and speech patterns for Wasserstein's Upper East Side rich and famous that simultaneously satirize and humanize them. She manages to individualize characters who are, finally, too stereotypic to hold up. Their egotism grows annoying, their race and class attitudes predictable, their divorces and mate swaps dreary. It's difficult to know whether to...