| Suburbanistas Contributor(s): Redmond, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1416505598 ISBN-13: 9781416505594 Publisher: Gallery Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: From the acclaimed author of "Younger" and "Babes in Captivity," a funny and moving novel about friendship, fame, and the fight for one suburb's future! "Greetings from New Jersey " Stella Powers is an A-list movie star who has just landed an Oscar-worthy role and a hot new rock-star husband when her mother's death brings her world tumbling down. Floundering as her life becomes one tabloid horror after another, Stella finds herself stuck in the New Jersey suburb she fled twenty years ago. But Homewood is no longer the sleepy town she remembers: housing prices are skyrocketing and glitzy new stores -- and people -- are moving in. To Stella and her young daughter, this is good news. "Wish you" weren't "here." The bad news: Stella's childhood best friend, Mary Jean, who married Stella's old boyfriend and raised four kids in Homewood, can no longer afford to live there. Mary Jean is determined to wrest back the town but needs Stella on her side. The stakes for both women are high, but how can these old friends reconnect after so much time has passed? Or more importantly, how can they not?
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Friendship |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005046632 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.48" W x 8.2" (0.67 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Friendship - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New Jersey |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the acclaimed author of Younger and Babes in Captivity, a funny and moving novel about friendship, fame, and the fight for one suburb's future! Greetings from New Jersey Stella Powers is an A-list movie star who has just landed an Oscar-worthy role and a hot new rock-star husband when her mother's death brings her world tumbling down. Floundering as her life becomes one tabloid horror after another, Stella finds herself stuck in the New Jersey suburb she fled twenty years ago. But Homewood is no longer the sleepy town she remembers: housing prices are skyrocketing and glitzy new stores -- and people -- are moving in. To Stella and her young daughter, this is good news. Wish you weren't here. The bad news: Stella's childhood best friend, Mary Jean, who married Stella's old boyfriend and raised four kids in Homewood, can no longer afford to live there. Mary Jean is determined to wrest back the town but needs Stella on her side. The stakes for both women are high, but how can these old friends reconnect after so much time has passed? Or more importantly, how can they not? |
Contributor Bio(s): Redmond, Pamela: - Pamela Redmond is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Younger, How Not to Act Old, and 30 Things Every Woman Should Have & Should Know. She started publishing novels, cofounded the world's largest baby name website Nameberry, got divorced, moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles, and changed her name, all after the age of fifty. The mother of three and grandmother of one, Redmond's website is at PamelaRedmond.com. |