![]() ![]() Everything changes when Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes to the city to "make it." Textured with the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan, The Cosmopolitans is a lush, inviting read, and the truths it frames about the human need for love and recognition remain long after the book is closed. ![]() Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. ![]() A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significant writers. ![]()
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