Lulu Peloquin, a French-Canadian working class girl, is "rescued" from her job behind the candy counter at Woolworth's and gradually becomes immersed in an upper-class world of vanity and emotional manipulation

LULU INCOGNITO

Kennedy, Raymond

Vintage

Ride a Cockhorse

A quiet, middle-aged widow, Mrs. Fitzgibbons suddenly launches on a madcap campaign of professional and sexual conquest in a staid New England town

Literature & Fiction

United States

Ticknor & Fields

Mrs. Fitzgibbons, a quiet, middle-aged widow, suddenly launches on a madcap campaign of professional and sexual conquest in a staid New England town

Humor & Satire

Herpes: Identification Treatment Prevention

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Robert d Anderson Pub Co

In a small bank in western Massachusetts, Frances "Frankie" Fitzgibbons--forty-five, widowed, and a hitherto mild-mannered home loan officer--is transformed almost overnight into a hard-charging, fast-talking embodiment of greed, ambition, and sexual voracity. She turns a seventeen-year-old drum major into her boy toy, bullies her way into the chief executive officer position at her bank, initiates a reign of terror among the employees, establishes herself as the darling of the local media, and moves to take over a competing institution. Originally published in the wake of the Savings &amp; Loan scandals of the 1990s, Kennedy's scathing satire of the American way of business is no less relevant today.

Ride a Cockhorse (Hardscrabble Books)

Univ Pr of New England

A revolution is under way at a once sleepy New England bank. Forty-five-year-old Frances Fitzgibbons has gone from sweet-tempered loan officer to insatiable force of nature almost overnight. Suddenly she’s brazenly seducing the high-school drum major, taking over her boss’s office, firing anyone who crosses her, inspiring populist fervor, and publicly announcing plans to crush her local rivals en route to dominating the entire banking industry in the northeast. The terrifying new order instituted by Frankie and her offbeat goon squad (led by her devoted hairdresser and including her own son-in-law) is an awesome spectacle to behold. Brimming with snappy dialogue and gleeful obscenity, Ride a Cockhorse is a rollicking cautionary tale of small-town demagoguery that might be seen to prefigure both America’s current financial woes and the rise of Sarah Palin. Frances is in any case a beautiful monster of an antiheroine—resist her at your peril!

Ride a Cockhorse (New York Review Books Classics)

Dramas & Plays

NYRB Classics

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LULU INCOGNITO

Ride a Cockhorse

Ride a Cockhorse

Herpes: Identification Treatment Prevention

Ride a Cockhorse (Hardscrabble Books)

Ride a Cockhorse (New York Review Books Classics)