Word: masterwomen
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...free enterprise system is devastatingly successful, and so, despite its complexities, is the author's handling of the caper. Its most memorable victim is Granada Masterman, Gudge's lumpy half-sister, who has built a door-to-door beauty-products business into an army of 14,000 Masterwomen that resembles more a religious cult than the Avon sorority. Granada aims to buy her way to social acceptance via the stock market and art patronage, and Thomas' depiction of the scramble of ars gratia ego is both deeply knowledgeable and unnerving...
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