Synopses & Reviews
Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That is, until her marriage became a weekly headline.Brooke was drawn to the soulful, enigmatic Julian Alter the very first time she heard him perform “Hallelujah” at a dark East Village dive bar.Now five years married, Brooke balances two jobs—as a nutritionist at NYU Hospital and as a consultant to an Upper East Side girls school, where privilege gone wrong and disordered eating run rampant—in order to help support her husbands dream of making it in the music world.Things are looking up when after years of playing Manhattan clubs and toiling as an A&R intern, Julian finally gets signed by Sony. Although no ones promising that the album will ever hit the airwaves, Julian is still dedicated to logging in long hours at the recording studio. All that changes after Julian is asked to perform on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno—and is catapulted to stardom, literally overnight. Amazing opportunities begin popping up almost daily—a new designer wardrobe, a tour with Maroon 5, even a Grammy performance.At first the newfound fame is fun—who wouldnt want to stay at the Chateau Marmont or visit the set of one of televisions hottest shows? Yet it seems that Brookes sweet husband—the man who cant handle hot showers and wears socks to bed—is increasingly absent, even on those rare nights theyre home together. When rumors about Brooke and Julian swirl in the tabloid magazines, she begins to question the truth of her marriage and is forced to finally come to terms with what she thinks she wants—and what she actually needs.
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"Incisive...an absorbing, thoroughly entertaining read" —Booklist
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"Weisberger has insightful takes about the price of success in our celebrity-obsessed culture" —Publishers Weekly
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"The perfect end-of-summer romp" —BookPage
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"A good antidote to summer TV — it's a haunting look at what might happen if your life became a reality show but you never signed off on the cameras" —Entertainment Weekly
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"Learn about the dark side of the limelight in this latest novel from
The Devil Wears Prada chick-lit maestro Lauren Weisberger" —
Star
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“If you like reading tabloid magazines, tracking the latest celebrity hookups, or are a fan of Weisberger's books, then Last Night at Chateau Marmont is the book for you.” —Associated Press
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“Her fourth novel provides the same kind of authentic peek into a rarified sub-culture that Prada did...as fervently flippable as a gossip magazine” —USA Today
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“Weisberger gets the star-making machine right, and the little details that make up the essence of the couple’s relationship feel poignant and true” —People
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“This is the only book in twenty years that made me wipe my eyes. Jen Lancasters like a modern-day, bawdy Erma Bombeck....I couldnt put it down!”—Lisa Lampanelli,
New York Post
“Entertaining, humorous, and well-written, and the characters are perfection; those of you who grew up in the eighties will be transported back there as if it was only yesterday.”—Examiner.com
“Mean Girls meets Back to the Future…scathingly witty and lots of fun.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A whimsical twist on the Back to the Future scenario…a fitting and none too treacly close. Quantum physics was never funnier. A great read.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A charming comedy in the vein of movies like Big and 13 Going on 30….Readers will find it easy to root for the frank and funny heroine of this winsome, whimsical tale...downright fun.”—Booklist (starred review)
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PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF JEN LANCASTER HERE I GO AGAIN
“This is the only book in twenty years that made me wipe my eyes. Jen Lancasters like a modern-day, bawdy Erma Bombeck....I couldnt put it down!”—Lisa Lampanelli, New York Post
“Entertaining, humorous, and well-written, and the characters are perfection.”—Examiner.com
“Mean Girls meets Back to the Future…scathingly witty and lots of fun.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A charming comedy in the vein of movies like Big and 13 Going on 30….Readers will find it easy to root for the frank and funny heroine of this winsome, whimsical tale.”—Booklist (starred review)
IF YOU WERE HERE
“A perfect summer read.”—USA Today
“Witty and hilarious.”—People (3½ Starts Out of 4)
“Bitter may well be the new black, but If You Were Here is the new funny.”—Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times Bestselling Author of Backseat Saints
“Turns out, Jen Lancaster, who was already a master of memoir, is a genius at fiction.”—Beth Harbison, New York Times Bestselling Author of Shoe Addicts Anonymous
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Bestseller Weisberger's latest, deliciously naughty novel about normal girls left behind by their new-celeb exes--and the girls' fitting revenge
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The New York Times bestselling is back, with a delicious novel about what happens when your guilty pleasure becomes your worst nightmare...
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With her debut novel, If You Were Here, Jen Lancaster [leapt] into the fiction arena with her rapier-sharp wit in one hand and a fistful of Home Depot gift cards in the other” (New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson). Now she goes from the trauma of home renovation to the drama of soul renovation in Here I Go Again.... Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesnt understand why her glory days ended. Back then, she was worshipped
beloved
feared. Present day, not so much. Shes been pink-slipped from her high-paying job, dumped by her husband, and kicked out of her condo. Now, at thirty-seven, shes struggling to start a business from her parents garage and sleeping under the hair-band posters in her old bedroom.
Lissy finally realizes karma is the only bitch bigger than she was. Her present is miserable because of her past. But its not like she can go back in time and change who she was...or can she?
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New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster is as adept at fiction as she is at telling her own stories” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). And now in her new novel, reality gets an unreal makeover
Reagan Bishop is a pusher. A licensed psychologist who stars on the Wendy Winsberg cable breakout show I Need a Push, Reagan helps participants become their best selves by urging them to overcome obstacles and change behaviors. An overachiever, Reagan is used to delivering results.
Despite her overwhelming professional success, Reagan never seems to earn her familys respect. Her younger sister, Geri, is and always will be the Bishop family favorite. When a national network buys Reagans show, the pressures for unreasonably quick results and higher ratings mount. But Reagans a clinician, not a magician, and fears witnessing her own personal failings in prime time. (And seriously? Her family will never let her hear the end of it.) Desperate to make the show work and keep her family at bay, Reagan actually listens when the shows New Age healer offers an unconventional solution
Record Nielsen ratings follow. But when Reagan decides to use her newfound power to teach everyone a lesson about sibling rivalry, shes the one who will be schooled
About the Author
Jen Lancaster is the New York Times bestselling author of ten books: Twisted Sisters, The Tao of Martha, Here I Go Again, Jeneration X, If You Were Here, My Fair Lazy, Pretty in Plaid, Such a Pretty Fat, Bright Lights, Big Ass, and Bitter is the New Black. She has appeared on Today, The Joy Behar Show, and NPRs All Things Considered. She resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and their ever-expanding menagerie of ill-behaved pets.