Turn of the Century: A Novel

The Story

The millennium is here.  BarbieWorld has opened in Vegas. Charles Manson's parole hearing is on live TV.  And George and Lizzie are a Manhattan power couple with three kids in private school and take-out from Hiroshima Boy waiting at the door.  Lizzie owns a software start-up.  George is a TV producer.  With cell phones tickling their thighs and gossip buzzing in their ears, their future couldn't be brighter.  Until, that is, Lizzie cuts a deal with George's boss and gets an office twenty-one floors above her husband's...  Until all the glitter and the hype threaten to destroy George's and Lizzie's sanity and their marriage...  Until the only thing that can save them is a little understanding--at a time when everyone is talking but no one can hear a thing.In his brash, brilliant first novel, media insider Kurt Andersen casts a penetrating eye on our giddy, media-obsessed era.  With a keen sense of irony and a storyteller's grace, the co-founder of Spy magazine weaves a tale that is at once a biting satire of America in the near future and a wickedly incisive portrait of marriage, family, love, and friendship.  A crackling, cybercharged joyride through our millennium, Turn of the Century is pure, eye-popping entertainment.