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Title: Everybody Rise
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Stephanie Clifford
Narrator: Katherine Kellgren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-18-15
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 203 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
An instant New York Times best seller!
Chosen as one of Summer's Best Books by People magazine
Featured in Time magazine's Summer Reading
Entertainment Weekly's Summer Must List
Good Housekeeping Beach Reads Feature
"A witty tale about a high-society wannabe... Little is more delicious than watching an ambitious but tragically flawed protagonist brought down - especially in a designer cocktail dress." (The Washington Post)
Everyone yearns to belong, to be part of the "in crowd", but how far are you willing to go to be accepted? In the case of bright, funny, and socially ambitious Evelyn Beegan, the answer is much too far....
At 26, Evelyn is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto New York's glamorous Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she gets a job at a social network aimed at the elite, she's forced to embrace them.
Recruiting new members for the site, Evelyn steps into a promised land of Adirondack camps, Newport cottages, and Southampton clubs thick with socialites and Wall Streeters. Despite herself, Evelyn finds the lure of belonging intoxicating and starts trying to pass as old money herself. When her father, a crusading class-action lawyer, is indicted for bribery, Evelyn must contend with her own family's downfall as she keeps up appearances in her new life, grasping with increasing desperation as the ground underneath her begins to give way.
Critic Reviews:
"...the performance is ferociously entertaining, and the intensity of Kellgren's reading propels the plot in a way that is well-nigh irresistible." (AudioFile)
Members Reviews:
A cautionary tale
Entertaining story about a social climber who loses herself as she pursues what she thinks is a higher status. Even as it heads towards the inevitable conclusion, the story holds your interest. I thought the narrator did a good job of bringing all the characters to life.
LOVE THE STORY, DISLIKE THE CHARACTERS
This book is masterfully crafted to expose the underside of East Coast society in early 2000's. No heroine, no arch enemy...but I couldn't stop listening. Awful people...but don't want to create a spoiler.
Great listen!
The narrator does a great job of portraying the characters throughout--from Mrs. Beegan's faux-old money affectation to Evelyn's posh group of friends and her own attempts at trying to make it among the "real" NYC elite.
Not exactly a breezy beach read
I am sooooo conflicted about this book, but I'll say up front that it's very well written, holding my interest as to how Evelyn would end up; although, it has its cringeworthy moments. Also, it's tough to discuss the book without at least some spoiler aspects, so let's get out of the way that she flies high like an Icarus, crashes badly bruised, and yes, eventually recovers. I felt it helped a lot during the worst of the events that our protagonist is, after all, someone to root for, crazed behavior and all.
Where to start I suppose the class aspect is what got at me the most. I'm peripherally familiar with the Old Money set whom the author sets up as Evelyn's object of desire.
