Better Homes & Husbands: A Novel

980 Park a fictional pre-war co-op on the Northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street houses the rich and famous-Sidney Sapphire the blonde anchorwoman of ABC News Angela Somoza the gorgeous Nicaraguan jet-setter Bob Horowitz the former chairman of the United Jewish Appeals and the usual collection of banking and industrial CEOs Wall Street magnates and white-haired philanthropists. The Brooklyn-born doorman Vinnie Ferretti joins the ranks when he becomes a major fashion designer.. The buildings board rich as clotted cream sips gin in the afternoons and devises ways to keep out anyone deemed inappropriate. Stifled resentments come to a head when the French baroness in the penthouse dies and two Jewish families in the building suspect the co-op board of more discrimination with regard to prospective buyers than might be legal.. Better Homes and Husbands is a stylish richly woven novel about class and caste feuds played out with ferocity and etiquette in a posh New York apartment building during the tumultuous period of social change between 1970 and 2000.