Riverside Drive
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Publisher Description
At New York's most-sought-after address, passions and secrets collide, and love is destroyed, then found again in the most unlikely place
Michael and Cassie Cochran are television's perfect couple, but the veneer of their enviable marriage is starting to crack. And only one of them is trying to salvage it.
Sam and Harriet Wyatt have spent a lifetime getting to where they are, but they could lose it all in the blink of an eye after Sam stumbles upon a corporate secret.
Howard Stewart has the perfect job and the perfect wife–both of which are a perfect lie.
Amanda Miller has wealth, fame and a lifetime of heartache. She's given up on men–until she meets the one she can't resist.
Step onto Riverside Drive, where friends and neighbors determine each other's destinies.
About the author
Laura Van Wormer was raised in Darien, Connecticut, and received a B.S. degree in Public Communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She joined Doubleday and Company as a secretary and worked her way up to the position of editor. As a freelance writer, she worked with the creators of the prime-time TV shows Dynasty, Dallas and Knots Landing to write coffee-table books about the shows. She is the author of ten novels including Riverside Drive, West End, Jury Duty and Talk. In Expose, Laura introduced readers to 30-something-year old journalist Sally Harrington. Sally has been featured in Expose, The Last Lover, Trouble Becomes Her and will appear in Laura's newest novel, The Bad Witness, in 2002. Both reviewers and fans have embraced Sally: "Sally is a heroine who is brave and frightened, energetic and exhausted, confused and right on the money." –Associated Press; "Sally is an intriguing character whose desire to return to the glamorous side of her industry seems to overcome her common sense. It is Sally's flaws and obsessions that make Laura Van Wormer's latest novel an enjoyable read." –Midwest Book Review; "Journalist Sally Harrington is an appealing mix of brains and folly." –Publishers Weekly; "Laura Van Wormer specialises in creating smart heroines with glamorous jobs and a knack for solving complicated murder mysteries." –New York Times Book Review. Laura divides her time between Manhattan and her English-style, stone-and-stucco farmhouse in Meriden, Connecticut, where she sits on the board of directors of the Friends of the Meriden Public Library and the Augusta Curtis Cultural Centre, Inc.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cassy and Michael Cochran are TV news producers. Michael is a drinker and womanizer, Cassy a silent sufferer. Howard Stewart, successful (though underpaid) book editor, is the unhappy husband of Melissa, a banker who was born rich and is getting richer. Sam and Harriet Wyatt, a black couple, are well-off and happy until Sam discovers that his employer does business with South Africa. Amanda Miller, a wealthy, reclusive divorcee, is a secret voluptuary, and elderly Emma Goldblum lives with her cat at the edge of poverty. These people inhabit the gracious apartment buildings that line Manhattan's Riverside Park. The one thing that connects them is their spunky cleaning lady, Rosanne DiSantos, who lives with her drug addict husband in a seedy West Side hotel. We follow this group from cocktail party to block party, through marital and job strife. Van Wormer's prose, in her first novel, ranges from florid to indifferent, but her realistic characters and situations, combined with occasional blasts of sensationalized sex, will keep her readers turning the pages. Doubleday Book Club main selection; Literary Guild featured alternate.