Beautiful Bodies A Novel

Manhattan, the coldest night of the year -- six best friends rush to attend a celebration. Blown by wind and snow, the women arrive flushed, each caught in midadventure....Tonight's the night of nights -- to rejoice in a new lover, leave an unfaithful husband, or decide to have a baby on one's own. These "six in the city" profes-sional women fight for their female choices. Sparks and zingers fly across the table....Love lives, secrets, and friendships go up in candle flame.Who will win -- the romantics or the realists? How can working women triumph in such trying times? While the cell phones chime and the biological clocks rewind, the friends enact a timeless ceremony. Here is our urban "friends-as-family" generation --Beautiful Bodiesis a dazzling comedy of manners in the grand tradition of Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy.

Laura Shaine Cunningham is an award-winning journalist and playwright as well as the author of five books, including Sleeping Arrangements and A Place in the Country. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Allure, Vogue and many other publications. She was born and raised in New York City. Her new novel, Dreams of Rescue, is forthcoming from Atria Books.

Contents

Raw Space
"Please Stand Clear of the Moving Platform"
"Desire at the End of the Line"
Reproductive Value
Sleeping Beauty on Seventeenth Street
Crudit&#;s -- a Duet
Trio
The Limo Lane: "Please Yield..."
Quartet
The Witching Hour
The Guest of Honor
"You look beautiful."
Dinner Is Served
"Ask not for whom the cell phone tolls..."
Just Desserts
"Holding Her Own"
The Walpurgisnacht
Let the Circle Be Unbroken

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