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Everybody Rise

door Stephanie Clifford

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"A masterful tale of social climbing and entrenched class distinctions, as seen through the eyes of an outsider who desperately wants in. Tense, hilarious, and bursting with gorgeous language. Stephanie Clifford is a 21st-century Edith Wharton." -J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Engagements. It's 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money and class are colliding in a city that is about to go over a financial precipice and take much of the country with it. At 26, bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto the Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she gets a job at a social network aimed at the elite, she's forced to embrace them. Recruiting new members for the site, Evelyn steps into a promised land of Adirondack camps, Newport cottages and Southampton clubs thick with socialites and Wall Streeters. Despite herself, Evelyn finds the lure of belonging intoxicating, and starts trying to pass as old money herself. When her father, a crusading class-action lawyer, is indicted for bribery, Evelyn must contend with her own family's downfall as she keeps up appearances in her new life, grasping with increasing desperation as the ground underneath her begins to give way. Bracing, hilarious and often poignant, Stephanie Clifford's debut offers a thoroughly modern take on classic American themes - money, ambition, family, friendship - and on the universal longing to fit in"--… (meer)
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This is "Bleak House" meets "Sweet Home Alabama". Personally, I am done with 20 somethings and their lack of planning and social climbing. ( )
  Sunandsand | Apr 30, 2022 |
A solid book about social climbing and the inevitable fall...with a hopeful ending! ( )
  AngelaLam | Feb 8, 2022 |
This book wasn’t for me. The beginning started off slow, and I could easily predict where this was going. It was hard to care about the many benefits, debutantes, and even Evelyn’s friends throughout the story, as they don’t appeal to me or my upbringing.

**I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review** ( )
  JaxlynLeigh | Feb 4, 2020 |
3.75. I was hesitant to read Everybody Rise, sounded too I'm rich and fabulous, but I figured I would give it a go and I am so glad I did. It's like Donna Tartt's The Secret History and Gossip Girl blended together. Evelyn got a new job for a website that caters to rich people and is trying to find high society people to join, her mom has tried to push her into this scene, but Evelyn was against it. She now has to try to infiltrate this social group and the way to do that is to become like them. She spends money she doesn't have, makes up lies to give her a credible old money background, and does a lot of ass kissing to make it happen and become best friends with the most known NY socialite Camilla. Evelyn's character gets more unlikable as the novel goes on as she tries to fit in with these high society people. I think at times it can be hard to read from a unlikable character, because she is annoying, but it's well done where she isn't just unlikable, there's a desperation and the desperation grows throughout. I was glad to see where the plot went, some of points of the plot and characters were reaching and needed more depth, but still a very good read. ( )
  wellreadcatlady | Oct 4, 2018 |
3.25 because the author used the correct "Canada goose" instead of the oh so wrong "Canadian goose", and Edith Wharton's [b:The House of Mirth|17728|The House of Mirth|Edith Wharton|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328729186s/17728.jpg|1652564] (one of my all time faves) was one of her inspirations. Otherwise this book was a fluffy social commentary trying really hard to be a serious social commentary and falling short. I also found it super ironic and more than a little hypocritical that the entire message of this book is about the evils of social climbing, but the author made sure to add in her bio that she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. Too bad she didn't graduate summa cum laude, maybe this book would have been just a little bit better if she had been able to pull off summa (just kidding). Totally middle of the road stuff here; reminds me of something I would have read in high school. My take away= meh. ( )
  Maureen_McCombs | Aug 19, 2016 |
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Stephanie Cliffordprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Grlic, OlgaOmslagontwerperSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
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"A masterful tale of social climbing and entrenched class distinctions, as seen through the eyes of an outsider who desperately wants in. Tense, hilarious, and bursting with gorgeous language. Stephanie Clifford is a 21st-century Edith Wharton." -J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Engagements. It's 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money and class are colliding in a city that is about to go over a financial precipice and take much of the country with it. At 26, bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto the Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she gets a job at a social network aimed at the elite, she's forced to embrace them. Recruiting new members for the site, Evelyn steps into a promised land of Adirondack camps, Newport cottages and Southampton clubs thick with socialites and Wall Streeters. Despite herself, Evelyn finds the lure of belonging intoxicating, and starts trying to pass as old money herself. When her father, a crusading class-action lawyer, is indicted for bribery, Evelyn must contend with her own family's downfall as she keeps up appearances in her new life, grasping with increasing desperation as the ground underneath her begins to give way. Bracing, hilarious and often poignant, Stephanie Clifford's debut offers a thoroughly modern take on classic American themes - money, ambition, family, friendship - and on the universal longing to fit in"--

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