{"product_id":"high-maintenance-9781573229302","title":"High Maintenance","description":"\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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573229302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.14w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/19\/2002 pg. 67\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jennifer Belle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45316416766133,"sku":"9781573229302","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b19cf261-59fe-441a-90be-83f29006f0d0.jpg?v=1745331036","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/high-maintenance-9781573229302","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}