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[My new book] starts in 1960 with a woman named Lois Rabinowitz, who was evicted from Manhattan traffic court for attempting to pay a parking ticket while wearing slacks. This was... Continue »
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    When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

    Gail Collins

Trading Up

by Candace Bushnell

Trading Up Cover

ISBN13: 9780786868186
ISBN10: 078686818x
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell — who with Sex and the City, changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, and the love of a good pair of Manolos — now brings us a sharply observant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter day comedy of manners.

Modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox is a lingerie model whose reach often exceeds her grasp, and whose new-found success has gone to her head. As we follow Janey's adventures, Bushnell draws us into a seemingly glamorous world of $100,000 cars, hunky polo players and media moguls, Fifth Avenue apartments, and relationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by the socially astute. But just as Janey enters this world of too much money and too few morals, unseen forces conspire to bring her down, forcing her to reexamine her values about love and friendship — and how far she's really willing to go to realize her dreams.

Review:

"Janey's story is satisfyingly dishy and as addictively readable the second time around. Expect high demand for Bushnell's latest." Meredith Parets, Booklist

Review:

"Janey Wilcox [is] a character so dull and humorless that she makes this whole elaborate enterprise one long, boring slog....Bushnell has committed the real crime here: failure to entertain." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"A nearly nonexistent sense of humor unfortunately negates any vicarious pleasure to be got from either Bushnell's better observations or Janey's monstrous diva-tude." Kirkus Reviews

Review:

"It can be hard to read a novel with a heroine so lacking in redeeming qualities, but would we really want to like someone so glamorous? Sure to be a hit with the many fans of 4 Blondes and Sex and the City." Library Journal

Review:

"Bushnell is in acid-tongued fine form, dissecting the mores of the rich and wannabe famous. This is fun, but with a cruel edge." Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Synopsis:

Now in paperback from the brilliant author of "Sex and the City"--a sharply observant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter-day comedy of manners centered on modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox, a lingerie model whose reach often exceeds her grasp.

Synopsis:

With a brilliant comic voice and a penchant for social satire, the author of "Sex and the City" brings readers a sharply observant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter day comedy of manners centered on a modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox, a lingerie model whose reach often exceeds her grasp.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780786868186
Author:
Bushnell, Candace
Publisher:
Hyperion Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Models (persons)
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Models
Subject:
New York
Subject:
Hamptons
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Copyright:
2003
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
NASA/TM-2001-211070
Publication Date:
July 1, 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
946x638x126 148
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