Maggie Darling A Modern Romance Unknown - 2003

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She's the goddess of hearth and home, America's millionaire media maven of domesticity, Connecticut's most dazzling hostess, and everything in her world must be perfect--except that Maggie Darling's enviable life has suddenly gone off the rails. Amid the extravagant buffets of a Yuletide bash for two hundred, she spies her scoundrel investment banker husband Kenneth slipping out of a powder room behind creamy young Laura Wilkie. He is, shall we say, not forgiven. Matrimonial meltdown launches Maggie on a year of romance and misadventure, including a Venetian fling with British rock star Frederick Swann, entanglement with the gangsta rap group Chill Az Def, and a fiendish seduction by--of all people--her dashing book editor, Harold Hamish, amid the trappings of a Vermont country weekend complete with fly rods and really good chardonnay. Meanwhile, a sniper is on the loose along the suburban freeways, and the Businessmen's Lunch Posse is robbing the patrons of Manhattan's four-star restaurants, and famous friends are losing their heads on Central Park West. Can Maggie brilliantly resolve the collapse of civilization as we wish we knew it? "Maggie Darling is a hilarious and perfectly refreshing modern novel of manners.