Women about Town
- ISBN-10
- 0142002771
- ISBN-13
- 9780142002773
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-04
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Laura Jacobs
Description
Debut novelist Jacobs joins an elite group of authors (Jane Austen, Nancy Mitford, Diane Johnson) whose novels celebrate intelligent, modest, witty, and endearingly funny women. The setting is Manhattan, but women everywhere can identify with Iris and Lana as they struggle to keep friendships afloat, the checkbook balanced, the career moving, and the morale up.
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