Close Relations

NEWYORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New YorkTimes bestselling author of Compromising Positions returnsat her sexy and satiric best, with a novel that blends sex, politics, andfamily crazinessMarcia Green is asophisticated, witty, successful New Yorker, a whiz of a political speechwriter, a woman who finds a smoke-filled room more intoxicating than a magnumof champagne. Her private life is a little less bubbly.
She has a passionatebut not very promising live-in relationship with her boss's dashing chief ofstaff, Jerry Morrissey. He offers her only a good time-but what a time!Can Marcia resist whena new man arrives on the scene, a man who is exactly the sort her family wantsher to marry-bright, kind, attractive, wealthy, and charming-in short, too goodto be real? Marcia is determined to find the right kind of man, as well as theright kind of life.
Compelling andentertaining, Close Relations is about the things that arevital to all of us, about men and women, about sex, money, work, family valuesand about what we need most in today's world-close relations.