Turn of the Century

First edition. Tall 8vo. Pp. [viii], 659, [5]. Quarter-bound black cloth over marine blue paper-covered boards, titled in green foil to spine. Dustjacket designed by Chip Kidd. Stated First Edition with number row ending with "2". Confusingly, Random House first editions drop the "1" from first printings.

Dustjacket lightly discoloured to spine, else Fine.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Fictional debut for media insider Andersen (formerly editor-in-chief of New York magazine, co-founder of Spy). A bi-coastal social satire for our era of turbo-charged capitalism, focusing on a Manhattan "power couple," straddling the worlds of infotainment and software entrepreneurship. "A big, sprawling book... [Kurt Andersen has] infused it with so much inventive imagination... Should be put in a Manhattan time capsule with the note: 'This is how we lived at the turn of the century.'" –The New York Times Book Review