{"product_id":"high-maintenance-paperback","title":"High Maintenance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Belle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of an obsessive love affair between a woman and an apartment.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe publication of her sexy, offbeat, riotous first novel, \u003ci\u003eGoing Down\u003c\/i\u003e, won Jennifer Belle comparisons from everyone from Dorothy Parker and Lorrie Moore to J. D. Salinger and Liz Phair. In \u003ci\u003eHigh Maintenance\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the manic world of New York real estate, \u003ci\u003eHigh Maintenance\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003ci\u003eHigh Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e is generous and unsparing, tough and exciting and terrifically smart--a hot new property on the market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Belle\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGoing Down\u003c\/i\u003e (for which she was named best debut novelist of the year by \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eHigh Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLittle Stalker\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e (London), \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Ms., Black Book, Mudfish\u003c\/i\u003e, and many anthologies. She lives in New York City and Olivebridge, New York, with her husband and their two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 7.98 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 02, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43158320218175,"sku":"9781573229302","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/DrpH9Fb2809781573229302.webp?v=1776988836","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/high-maintenance-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}