Everybody Rise, Stephanie Clifford
Everybody Rise, Stephanie Clifford
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Everybody Rise
A Novel

Author: Stephanie Clifford

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren

Unabridged: 12 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/18/2015

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

A sparkling debut that is “full of ambition and grit” (Emma Straub), Stephanie Clifford's Everybody Rise is a story about identity and loss, and how sometimes we have to lose everything to find our way back to who we really are.

“Finally, a novel that admits ‘making it’ isn't just a makeover away.” -Vanity Fair

Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn Beegan intended to free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto New York’s stately Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she lands a job at a social-network startup aimed at the elite, she has no choice but to infiltrate their world. Soon she finds herself navigating the promised land of Adirondack camps, Hamptons beach houses, and, of course, the island of Manhattan itself.

Intoxicated by the wealth, access, and influence of her new set, Evelyn can’t help but try to pass as old money herself. But when the lies become more tangled, she grasps with increasing desperation as the ground beneath her begins to give way.

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

About Stephanie Clifford

As a New York Times reporter, Loeb-award winning journalist Stephanie Clifford covered courts, business and media. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, she grew up in Seattle and lives in Brooklyn. Everybody Rise is her first book. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and two cats.

About Katherine Kellgren

Katherine Kellgren has recorded over 200 audiobooks and won four Audie Awards, three ALA Odyssey Honors, and eight AudioFile Earphones Awards. In 2011, Kellgren was named the  Best Voice in Young Adult & Fantasy, and she won the Audie award for Best Female Narrator in both 2013 and 2014.  Kellgren has also appeared onstage in London, New York and Frankfurt. She has recorded numerous plays and dramatizations of novels for the radio, including winners of the Peabody Award. She is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In naming Kellgren a “Golden Voice,” AudioFile magazine noted that she is a "marvel with accents...she is definitely a narrator to keep an ear out for." She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsay on August 29, 2018

* An advance copy of Everybody Rise was provided to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Though I enjoyed parts of this book, I cannot say that it is worthy of the seven-figure book deal (oh, the irony!), potential film, or praise it has gotten. It's making me seriously question the......more

Goodreads review by Leanne on September 29, 2015

This is one of those stressful books where the main character (Evelyn here) rises and rises through mildly nefarious tactics and you just know they're going to fall eventually - and even though they're not the most likeable of characters, you still root for them anyway, because they're your faithful......more

Goodreads review by Esil on August 24, 2015

I appreciated the concept of Everybody Rise, but it didn't work particularly well for me. Just like the main character Evelyn, the book seemed to try too hard and as a consequence felt too obvious. Evelyn's mother is a very self conscious class climber. Her father is a class action plaintiffs' lawye......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on May 24, 2016

Evelyn Beegan wants to forge her own path in life outside of the influence of her social climbing mother. Unfortunately for Evelyn she obtains a job at a social network aimed at the elite landing her right back into the world she'd shied away from. When Evelyn needs to start recruiting for her job s......more

Goodreads review by Quinn on January 12, 2015

Thanks to @Vromans for letting me read it. If I could give it another star, I would. EVERYBODY RISE is absolutely terrific, Wolfe meets Wharton, a page-turning look at the world of monied Upper East Siders and one young woman desperate to be part of that life right before The Great Recession. Cliffor......more