Prospect Park West

A Novel

By Sohn, Amy

Publishers Summary:
BROOKLYN'S FAMED PARK SLOPE neighborhood has it all: sprawling, majestic Prospect Park; acclaimed public schools; historic brownstones; and progressive values. Among bohemian bourgeois breeders, claiming a stake in Park Slope has become a competitive sport.In the park, at the coffee shops, and on the playgrounds of the neighborhood, four women's lives come together during one long, hot Brooklyn summer. Melora Leigh, a two-time Oscar-winning actress, frustrated with her career and the pressures of raising her adopted toddler, feels the seductive pull of kleptomania; Rebecca Rose, missing the robust sex life of her pre-motherhood days, begins a dangerous flirtation with a handsome neighborhood celebrity; Lizzie O'Donnell, a former lesbian (or "hasbian"), wonders why she is still drawn to women in spite of her sexy husband and adorable baby; and Karen Bryan Shapiro finds herself consumed by two powerful obsessions: her four-year-old son's well-being and snagging the ultimate three-bedroom apartment in a wellmaintained, P.S. 321-zoned co-op building. As the women's paths intertwine (and sometimes collide), each must struggle to keep her man, her sanity...and her playdates.From the perennially hot author and columnist Amy Sohn comes a smart, sexy, satirical peek into the bedrooms and hearts of Prospect Park West.

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ISBN
978-1-41657-763-8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster


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Library Journal

Reviewed on July 15, 2009

Sohn is the ultimate New York City girl; the author of Run Catch Kiss, she also has penned Carrie Bradshaw-esque columns for New York magazine and a companion guide to Sex and the City: The Movie. In her new novel, Sohn waxes poetic about Brooklyn's gentrified Prospect Park and its yuppie residents. From an Oscar-winning actress hitting a serious slump to a pudgy, overprotective mom, Park Slope wives w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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