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Amy Ephron navigates the social contradictions of New York society, a world in which freedom was celebrated even while Prohibition and the strictest social conventions were in force. She brings to life this time and place through the stories of five socialites whose lives are irrevocably changed because of gossip, indiscretion, secrets, and betrayal.
Four women at a bridge party in the elegant Gramercy Park Hotel see a beautiful young woman, whom they all know, leaving a nearby hotel with a man who is not her husband. The sight of twenty-year-old Lizzie Carswell with Billy Holmes is shocking and potentially ruinous, and though they do not know the whole story and despite their mutual promise to keep what they've seen to themselves, it is only a matter of time before one of them talks -- with heartbreaking consequences for them all.
One Sunday Morning is a drama of the strictures of polite society tragically coming to conflict with the liberated spirit of the Jazz Age. With all the romance of Gatsby's New York and the seduction of Josephine Baker's Paris, Ephron's tale is compelling all the way to its surprising and satisfying ending.
Four women at a bridge party in the elegant Gramercy Park Hotel see a beautiful young woman, whom they all know, leaving a nearby hotel with a man who is not her husband. The sight of twenty-year-old Lizzie Carswell with Billy Holmes is shocking and potentially ruinous, and though they do not know the whole story and despite their mutual promise to keep what they've seen to themselves, it is only a matter of time before one of them talks -- with heartbreaking consequences for them all.
One Sunday Morning is a drama of the strictures of polite society tragically coming to conflict with the liberated spirit of the Jazz Age. With all the romance of Gatsby's New York and the seduction of Josephine Baker's Paris, Ephron's tale is compelling all the way to its surprising and satisfying ending.
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Connie (I really loved this book. First of all it is so pretty and such an easy book to read. The story is during the 1920's. There are 5 women friends who meet to play bridge together. This one morning 1 does not come and during the game break 2 of the women happen to look out the window of the beautiful hotel they meet at to play and see their friend coming out of the hotel across the street, still in the party clothes she had worn the evening before to a party they had all attentended. To make matters worse, she is with a man, who isn't her husband. Now the friends have to decide if they are going to say anything to anyone. They decide not to mention it again. But one does not keep the secret. This is the story about what can happen when gossip is spread and rumors that may or may not be true. Very good read.
A story of 5 women in 1920s New York and the drama of their relationships. Four of them see the 5th with a man and their decisions about what to say to whom is an interesting story of the repercussions of gossip and secrecy.
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