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A satirical look at the inner workings of high society
Oliver Booth wants
nothing more than to join the ranks of Palm Beach's high society. But
with his arrogant personality, garish wardrobe, and incompetent
stewardship of an antique shop filled with gaudy reproductions, he
doesn't have a chance.
Oliver's luck takes a turnabout when
the society doyenne Margaret Van Buren sends him and his assistant,
Bernard, to Paris on a shopping spree to furnish her new estate. What
ensues is a series of hilarious, Voltaire-esque misadventures as
Oliver bumbles his way through the milieu of the elite.
A
satirical look at the lengths some people will go to in order to
enter the insular circle of the privileged, David Desmond's novel is
a witty glimpse into a world few of us know.
pub date: 2008-10-01 | paperback | 9781929774562 |
