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    Closing Costs

    Written by Seth Margolis

    Narrated by Susan Denaker

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    About this audiobook

    When Peggy Gimmel decides to sell the apartment she bought decades ago for a few thousand dollars, she's thrilled to discover that it's worth almost $2 million. But her sudden windfall triggers a cascade of unexpected events and plunges her into the dizzying orbit of Lucinda Wells, one of Manhattan's most successful and ruthless real-estate agents. Peggy's not the only one at Lucinda's mercy. There's also the technology entrepreneur struggling to salvage his sinking company while gut-renovating his home. The socialite exiled from Park Avenue to the pullout sofa of her parents' West Side apartment. The illegal immigrant amassing a fortune printing money. The clueless widow trying to unload a world-class collection of fake artwork. These are just some of the characters whose lives intersect in unlikely ways, all of them nearly overwhelmed by the rocketing real-estate market and the hard-charging broker who holds the key to their futures.
    As he interweaves these often suspenseful and frequently comical stories, Margolis captures the zeitgeist of a cultural moment, keeping us listening with the rise and fall of his characters' fortunes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 8, 2006
    ISBN9781415934425
    Author

    Seth Margolis

    Seth Margolis worked for six years as a volunteer tutor for Literacy Volunteers of NYC. He is the author of two mysteries, False Faces and Disappearing Acts, and he lives and works on New York City’s Upper West Side.

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    • 4/5
      This was just plain fun---listening to the audio version supplied wonderful accents to the characters in my mind. The whole story is completely tied up in a bow by the end, all characters interrelated and included. Amusing in its timeliness and unfortunate in its accuracy in giving a description of the way the real world seems to be working these days.