Everybody Rise (Clifford) - Book Reviews

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In a tightly plotted narrative, Clifford shows how Evelyn's tenuous initiation into this most elite of social networks coincides with an increasingly desperate effort to secure her footing there...Clifford details the manners of the old-money set with a reporter's well-trained eye.
New York Times Book Review


A smart tragicomedy about a young woman attempting to infiltrate the "Primates of Park Avenue" crowd.... Ferociously incisive class commentary....a 21st-century fable of one woman's reconstruction.
Washington Post


Gossip Girl fans, rejoice! Behold the literary version of a Jenny-esque narrated story, had she met Blair and Serena in her mid-20s. Cue lies, affairs and mounting debt.
Marie Claire


The summer's most anticipated beach read...a funny, sharply observed debut novel about young one percenters in New York...a buzzy Tom-Wolfe-meets-Edith-Wharton novel of young Manhattan.
Hollywood Reporter


Author Stephanie Clifford has been described as a modern-day Edith Wharton.
Elle

Addictive: think Prep meets The Devil Wears Prada.
Good Housekeeping


The upstart heroine...wages a one-woman assault on the old-money snobbery of the Upper East Side, before the Wall Street stock market crash of 2008.... [A]n amusing page-turning beach read. But if the author is trying to suggest that after 2008, class and the UES no longer hold sway, her argument is thin.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Clifford...has penned either a...cautionary tale for those seeking access to this rarefied world.... A compulsive, up-close-and-personal read about the first cracks in the greed-and-bleed U.S. economy that went flying off the rails so spectacularly a short time later. —Beth Andersen, formerly with Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI
Library Journal


A young woman who works at a tech startup tries to shoehorn her way into New York's high society.... But [she] spends so much time doing such bone-headed things...that's it's hard to work up any interest in what happens to her. Clifford's debut tries to be a Bonfire of the Vanities for our time but doesn't make it.
Kirkus Reviews