Book jacket and pages yellowing with age GP Putnam’s Sons, 1966 Book Club Edition, 253 pages From the drawing rooms of Fifth Avenue cooperatives to the most exclusive hair salons, dress shops, nightclubs, and art galleries, Edwin Gilbert's THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE bounces along with New York's "beautiful people" as they tread their precarious ways through New York's Upper East Side. As it moves, it carries with it the passions and problems peculiar to this select group.