An edition of In the Drink: A Novel (1999)

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An edition of In the Drink: A Novel (1999)

In the drink

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Kate Christensen's In the Drink tells the story of a resolutely clear-eyed young woman who makes a complete mess of her life, and lives to tell the tale.

The novel's heroine is the smart, pretty, underemployed, and single Claudia Steiner, personal secretary to Genevieve del Castellano, a terrifying, glamorous semi-lunatic who has it in for her for reasons she can't even begin to fathom. William, her best friend, considers Claudia his pal, his confidante, his sidekick in matters amatory, which would be fine if she weren't desperately in love with him herself.

Further complicating matters is Claudia's old lover John Threadgill, an unpublished epic poet whose marriage to a Romanian stripper named Rima hasn't kept him from trying to seduce Claudia at every opportunity.

Claudia came to New York City fresh out of college, buoyed along by her dream of becoming a journalist. But her starry-eyed notion of Claudia Steiner, Reporter on the Beat, quickly vanished into the ozone when she couldn't muster the requisite hard-bitten, white-hot urgency, the chain-smoking, the yelling, and the cutthroat story-mongering. Now, at the age of twenty-nine, she finds herself adrift in the city, careening dangerously from catastrophe to catastrophe.

Desperately trying to keep her head above water, Claudia has little to rely on but a wry sense of humor, a keen appreciation of the medicinal properties of whiskey, and something more subtle - a persistent little flame of belief in herself, which makes a happy ending seem possible even in this most unforgiving of cities.

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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
278

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In the Drink: A Novel
August 1, 2000, Anchor
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In the drink
1999, Doubleday
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Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.H716 I5 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
278 p. ;
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL34691M
Internet Archive
indrink00chri_0
ISBN 10
0385494505
LCCN
99018876
OCLC/WorldCat
40776954
Library Thing
35457
Goodreads
1844717

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