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HTML: 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. . … (more) |
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For my beautiful mother, Camille
And for my grandmother:
Elsie Salonia, who was always a big reader
The late Lucy and Lena
And my new grandmother, Jane And special thanks to the darling Anne Shearman for her title | |
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(Trading Up: Book One pg. 1-106)
It was the beginning of the summer in the year 2000, and in New York City, where the streets seemed to sparkle with gold dust filtered down from a billiion trades in the boom economy, it was business as usual. (Trading Up: Book Two pg. 107-348)
On September 10, 2000, the New York Times announced that Jane (known as Janey) Wilcox, thirty-three, a Victoria's Secret lingerie model, was married four days before to Selden Rose, forty-five, the CEO of MovieTime, in a small, private ceremony in Montradonia, Italy. (Trading Up: Book Three pg. 349-563)
The G5 landed on the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport, and then taxied to a private jet strip where it was met by a Mercedes limousine and two French customs agents. | |
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(Trading Up: Book Three pg. 249-563)
… From her vantage point high in the Hollywood Hills, the twinking lights of Los Angeles lay spread out beneath her like a golden carpet, welcoming her. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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HTML: 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. . ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Janey Wilcox fel akar jutni a csúcsra. Amióta Candace Bushnell megteremtette Carrie Bradshaw-t és a Szex és New Yorkot, nem született még Janey Wilcoxhoz, Bushnell új regénye főszereplőjéhez hasonló hősnő. Janey gyönyörű nő, aki mindenáron feljebb akar jutni a társadalmi ranglétrán, és elszántan küzd, hogy életben maradjon New York City felső tízezrének világában. Az olvasók Bushnell Négy szőke című, nagy nemzetközi sikert befutott regényében ismerkedhettek meg Janeyvel. Most újra találkozhatnak kedvencükkel, aki azóta egy csinos Porsche Boxsterrel jár, remek modellszerződéssel a zsebében, és nagyratörő tervekkel a fejecskéjében. Miközben állandó sztárvendége lesz a hamptoni előkelő partiknak, mi is megismerkedünk a százezer dolláros kocsik, menő pólójátékosok, médiamogulok csillogó világával. De vigyázat! Mialatt Janeyt elnyeli e túl sok pénzzel és túl kevés erkölccsel élő világ, a háttérben láthatatlan erők fognak össze, hogy lerántsák a mélybe. Janey Wilcox azonban túl szép és túl fiatal ahhoz, elbukjon. A Bármi áron szórakoztató, ugyanakkor éles szemű és csípősen szellemes tablót fest egy olyan világról, amelyben az ember sohasem lehet elég gazdag, elég jólöltözött, és sohasem lehet biztos benne, hogy elég magasra felkapaszkodott a társadalmi ranglétrán. Candace Bushnell, a maga fényes humorával és a társadalomszatíra iránti remek érzékével egyszer és mindenkorra megváltoztatta a New York Cityről, a női barátságról és a márkás cuccokról alkotott véleményünket. | |
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