{"product_id":"high-maintenance-by-jennifer-belle","title":"High Maintenance by Jennifer Belle Paperback GOOD","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover in Good (G) condition. Standard wear, pages clean and straight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe story of an obsessive love affair between a woman and an apartment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe publication of her sexy, offbeat, riotous first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGoing Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, won Jennifer Belle comparisons from everyone from Dorothy Parker and Lorrie Moore to J. D. Salinger and Liz Phair. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHigh Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Belle is back with another brilliantly twisted New York story that is as funny, sad, painful, ridiculous, wild, daring, and lovable as its predecessor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSet in the manic world of New York real estate, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHigh Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the story of Liv Kellerman, a young woman who's just left her husband and, more important, their fabulous penthouse apartment with its Empire State Building view. On her own for the first time in her life, she relocates to a crumbling Greenwich Village hovel and contemplates her next move. Before long she finds her true calling: selling real estate. With her native eye for prime properties and an ability to lie with a straight face, Liv finds success and soon is swimming with the sharks-the hardcore, cutthroat brokers who'll do anything to close a deal. Along the way she picks up a maniacally ardent architect who likes to bite her, a few hilarious bosses, strange and exasperating clients, and a gun, and brings them with her on her search for the one thing she's really after: a home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBelle's gift for creating strange and winning characters and her acute observations of both the absurd and the poignant in everyday life are the hallmarks of her fiction. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHigh Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is generous and unsparing, tough and exciting and terrifically smart--a hot new property on the market.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332356575459,"sku":"EXL601-22807","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/products\/50590.jpg?v=1642001703","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/high-maintenance-by-jennifer-belle","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}