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Wed Feb 24, 2016, 12:33 AM Feb 2016

Tall Buildings: Disasterpiece Masterpiece

Last edited Wed Feb 24, 2016, 02:08 AM - Edit history (1)

For 5 days starting 2/24/16, another one of my books is on free promotion. And no, it has nothing to do with 9-11 or planes crashing in buildings. It's a satiric nod to those bygone career girl flicks. I can imagine her these days being a Trump supporter.

http://www.amazon.com/TALL-BUILDINGS-Disasterpiece-Veda-Dalsette-ebook/dp/B013LBB1RA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456249720&sr=1-1&keywords=tall+buildings+veda+dalsette



In 1962, that quaint time of polio, carbon paper, and the Constitutional right to an attorney, Junemarie leaves the farm for Manhattan to become a career girl—and to find a husband.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer and more than a little xenophobic, she doesn't know the meaning of the word 'surrender', despite being an assistant editor in a prestigious publishing house. Her pursuit of handsome Ken Davenport is so relentless she's not deterred by her own acrophobia and the calamities to the city's tall buildings that season, including a tornado strike, towering inferno, defenestration, rooftop decapitation, and elevator mutilation. She learns about free love, beatniks, jazz, and psychoanalysis, attends the celebrated Leprosy Charity Ball, and pens her own space-age novel. The shocking secrets of a hard-boiled veteran editor, peculiar co-worker, and her beloved Ken are revealed along with her own closet's skeletons.

Not everyone can conquer the dizzying heights of modern Manhattan. Can Junemarie?
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