Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen and Kurt Anderson (1999, Abridged, Audio Cassette)

Synopsis
An end-of-the-millennium satirical novel about George and Lizzie, a New York couple who find that their marriage may be coming to an end along with the century.

Key Details
Author:	Kurt Anderson, Kurt Andersen
Language:	English
Publisher:	Random House
Format:	Audio
ISBN-10:	0375408428
ISBN-13:	9780375408427

Additional Details
Narrated by:	John Rubinstein
Edition Description:	Abridged

Size
Height:	7 in
Width:	4.3 in
Thickness:	1.8 in
Weight:	7.2 oz

Publisher's Note

As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first.

George Mactier and Lizzie Zimbalist, ten years married, are caught up in the whirl of their accelerating lives. George is a TV producer launching a ground-breaking new show. Lizzie is a software entrepreneur running her own company. However, after Lizzie becomes a confidante and advisor to George's boss, billionaire media mogul Harold Mose, the couple discovers that no amount of sophisticated spin can obscure basic instincts: envy, greed, suspicion, sexual temptation--and, maybe, love.

Like Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Kurt Andersen's Turn of the Century lays bare the follies of our age with laser-beam precision, creating memorable characters and dissecting the ways we think, speak, and navigate this new era of extreme capitalism and mind-bogging technology. Entertaining, imaginative, knowing, and wise, Turn of the Century is a richly plotted comedy of manners about the way we live now.

Industry Reviews
"Readers will, I hope, be picking up Kurt Andersen's book for years, even for decades, to come....By readers, I do not mean ordinary readers. I mean anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists. Whole teams of them. For this book's significance as a cultural phenomenon is exactly proportionate to its insignificance as a work of culture....We wait for a real satirical writer to satirize the official and utterly unmenacing satirizers like Kurt Andersen."
New Republic - Lee Siegel (07/05/1999)

"At one point I didn't want the novel ever to end--but I was only on page 200, with nearly 500 to go. A couple of hundred pages later I was wishing I was there already....TURN OF THE CENTURY starts to feel like a party where all the guests are trying to prove how smart they are....The other problem with the book's length is that people may buy the book but then only pretend to have read it. That would be too bad, because in the last 100 pages a suspenseful plot breaks out."
New York Times Book Review - Po Bronson (05/16/1999)

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