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    Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners
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    Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners

    By Y. Euny Hong

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    Who knew that being in the leisure class required so much work?

    Judith Lee, an entitled descendant of the Korean royal family, has grown quite accustomed to the privileges of the aristocracy. When her parents cut off her finances upon graduation from Yale, Jude learns that her fancy upbringing has left her unprepared to deal with her monstrous debts. That is, until she is introduced to Madame Tartakov, a charismatic Russian émigré who has the solution to Jude's financial woes: two years with Tartakov's like-minded high-society girls as one of Manhattan's most coveted courtesans. But Jude's moral fiber is tested when she discovers that not only is she falling in love outside her clientele, but an illegitimate relative is harboring a grotesque secret, and something catastrophic is hidden in the family archives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateAug 7, 2006
    ISBN9781416538073
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    Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners
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    Y. Euny Hong

    Y. Euny Hong was the first-ever television columnist for the U.S. edition of the Financial Times. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and the Forward, among other periodicals. She studied philosophy at Yale University and was recently awarded a Fulbright Beginning Professional Journalism Award.

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      I like it because of its tone which at times is very amusing in a droll sort of way.