The Custom of the Country

<b>The classic satire of New York society and the American Dream through the misadventures of an insatiable young striver</b><br><br> Ambitious and wholeheartedly materialistic Undine Spragg is a beautiful heiress who sees men as a means to an end. New York millionaires and French aristocrats fall at her feet but each conquest is merely a stepping-stone in Undine&#146;s quest for power and position&#151;and in her elusive search for happiness.<br><br> A biting satire from one of America&#146;s greatest writers <i>The Custom of the Country </i>features a compelling and driven antiheroine a sharp-eyed critique of the marriage market and its objectification of women and a knowing send-up of Gilded Age snobbery.