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Review “Full of ambition and grit. Clifford provides sharp-eyed access to a moneyed world and its glamorous inhabitants.” ―Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers“A masterful tale of social climbing and entrenched class distinctions . . . Tense, hilarious, and bursting with gorgeous language. Stephanie Clifford is a 21st century Edith Wharton.” ―J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Engagements and Maine“A superb debut. Everybody Rise is a 21st century version of a grand 19th century novel--a smart, moving tale of class, ambition, and identity.” ― Malcolm Gladwell “A compulsive, up-close-and-personal read about the first cracks in the greed-and-bleed U.S. economy that went flying off the rails so spectacularly a short time later.” ― Library Journal About the Author As a New York Times reporter, Loeb-award winning journalist Stephanie Clifford covered courts, business and media. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, she grew up in Seattle and lives in Brooklyn. Everybody Rise is her first book. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and two cats.
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- A sparkling debut that is “full of ambition and grit” (Emma Straub), Stephanie Clifford's
- Everybody Rise
- is a story about identity and loss, and how sometimes we have to lose everything to find our way back to who we really are.
- “Finally, a novel that admits ‘making it’ isn't just a makeover away.” -
- Vanity Fair
- Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn Beegan intended to free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto New York’s stately Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she lands a job at a social-network startup aimed at the elite, she has no choice but to infiltrate their world. Soon she finds herself navigating the promised land of Adirondack camps, Hamptons beach houses, and, of course, the island of Manhattan itself. Intoxicated by the wealth, access, and influence of her new set, Evelyn can’t help but try to pass as old money herself. But when the lies become more tangled, she grasps with increasing desperation as the ground beneath her begins to give way.
- Chosen as one of Summer's Best Books by
- People
- Magazine
- Featured in
- Time
- Magazine's Summer Reading
- Entertainment Weekly
- 's Summer Must List
- Good Housekeeping
- Beach Reads Feature
