false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604124m/6613.jpg 6613 22 Candace Bushnell made her reputation as the creator of the HBO special <I>Sex and the City</I>, based on her book of the same name (based in turn on her eros-intensive <I>New York Observer</I> column). In <I>Four Blondes</I>, she returns with a quartet of novellas on her favorite subject--the mating habits of wealthy sex-, status-, and media-obsessed New Yorkers. These are people for whom a million or two does not make one rich, and who consider Louis Vuitton and Prada bare necessities. Janey Wilcox, for example, is a former model who each summer chooses a house in the Hamptons--or, rather, picks up a wealthy man with a pricey rental. With one movie in her past, her "lukewarm celebrity was established and she figured out pretty quickly that it could get her things and keep on getting them, as long as she maintained her standards." Yet even Janey eventually realizes that what she's getting isn't exactly what she wants. Cecelia, on the other hand, has gotten the ultimate prize: a royal husband. Still, she finds herself descending into paranoia as the Manhattan media circus reports her every flaw. Then there's Winnie Diekes, a high-powered magazine columnist whose marriage flounders as she pushes her unambitious husband to write the book that will make him--and her--famous.<p> Finally, in the most clearly autobiographical story, a writer gives up on the commitment-impaired men of New York and goes to London to find a husband. There she trolls for the typical Englishman--"a guy who had sex with his socks on, possessed a microscopic willy, and came in two minutes." Bushnell is famous for this sort of sexual brashness, and the book is full of her sharp wit, both in and out of the boudoir. She also clearly enjoys her characters and their misadventures, with one exception: the politically correct Winnie, with her distaste for alcohol, night life, and casual sex, inspires an odd sort of authorial contempt. Otherwise, though, Bushnell's ironic takes on the sexual foibles of the rich and famous are mordant, mischievous fun. <I>--Lesley Reed</I> 2548756 2000 Four Blondes total:5605|5:204|4:605|3:1544|2:1757|1:1494| 5605 13081 6707 498 1 10 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Feb 26 07:36:56 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 26 07:39:14 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 4 false false Wed Feb 27 11:45:39 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 11:53:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 6 false false Sun Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Jun 27 18:39:04 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 27 13:13:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Wed Mar 26 14:57:55 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 05:59:40 -0700 2008
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