Books like Breakfast at Tiffany's
A young writer looks back on the wartime year he lived downstairs from Holly Golightly, a Manhattan café-society girl with a past she keeps rewriting and a cat she refuses to name.
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Rules of Civility
A young woman in Depression-era New York navigates the city's elite hotels and speakeasies, building a life through wit, nerve, and a single evening's lucky encounter.
Table for Two
Six short stories set mostly in New York and a novella that follows Eve Ross from Rules of Civility to 1938 Hollywood, each turning on a chance meeting or a decision made over a meal.
City of Girls
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris, sent down from Vassar, goes to live with her aunt Peg, who runs a crumbling midtown theatre called the Lily Playhouse, and plunges into a world of showgirls, playboys and nights that last until morning.
Sex and Rage
Jacaranda Leven, a surfer and party girl who drifts through Los Angeles at the end of the 1970s, starts writing seriously and moves to New York, and has to decide what she will give up to keep going.
Harriet the Spy
Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch, who wants to be a writer, spies on her Manhattan neighbours and classmates and writes down everything in her notebook, until her friends find it and read what she wrote about them.
Lives of Girls and Women
Del Jordan grows up in the small Ontario town of Jubilee in the 1940s, among the women of her family and the town, and wants to be a writer.
Leviathan
After a man blows himself up beside a Wisconsin road, his novelist friend reconstructs how a gentle writer became a bomber of Statue of Liberty replicas.
Pineapple Street
The Stocktons are old Brooklyn Heights money, and three women live with it: Darley, the eldest daughter, who gave up her inheritance to marry; Georgiana, the youngest, who falls for the wrong man; and Sasha, who married in and is treated as a gold-digger.
Goodbye, Columbus
A young Jewish man in 1950s New Jersey navigates his first encounters with class, sex, and the gap between the suburban dream and its spiritual emptiness.
The Grass Harp
An orphaned boy, his gentle elderly cousin Dolly and her friend Catherine move into a treehouse to escape Dolly's domineering sister, and the town turns out to bring them down.
The House of Mirth
A beautiful but poor woman in Gilded Age New York navigates the marriage market with diminishing returns, and society's glittering surface conceals a machinery of destruction.
The Friend
When her longtime friend and mentor dies, a writer in New York inherits his enormous Great Dane, Apollo, and the dog, grieving too, moves into her small rent-stabilised apartment.