The Sky's The Limit by Steven Gaines

The Sky's The Limit by Steven Gaines

Steven Gaines trains his sharp eye on rich people behaving badly. The arena is Manhattan luxury property and the outlandish displays of ego, outrageous behaviour, blood feuds, status hunger and conspicuous consumption that dominate that world. THE SKY'S THE LIMIT reveals the apartment-swapping adventures of many celebrities - from Jerry Seinfeld to Barbra Streisand, from Tommy Hilfiger to Gloria Vanderbilt - whose adventures in promiscuous apartment swapping and renovating are told with typical Gaines verve and style. And Gaines digs much deeper to tell us the fascinating story of how boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status for the rich. He explores the development of the cooperative apartment, originally conceived as a way to house the poor. He introduces us to a fascinating, diverse cast of carriage trade brokers, whose most important task is to get their anxious clients past the dreaded co-op board. And he gives us finely etched portraits of a few of the discreet, elderly society ladies who are the real arbiters of who gets into the so-called Good Buildings.

Praise for Steven Gaines: 'Hugely entertaining' - Washington Times 'Breezy, irreverent..amusing...Gaines has found...the Hamptons a place worthy of its own unauthorized biography, replete with scandals, scurrilous characters, assorted bacchanalia, and all manner of wretched excess' - The Wall Street Journal

Steven Gaines is the author of Philistines at the Hedgerow, Obsession and other books and numerous articles on pop culture. He lives in Wainscott, New York, located in the Hamptons.

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ISBN 13	9780316154550
ISBN 10	0316154555
Title	The Sky's The Limit
Author	Steven Gaines
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2006-07-06
Number of pages	304
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