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BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN - Paperback !!!

THIS IS GOING TO BE AN EXCITING SUMMER!

JULY 21 THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN WILL BE PUBLISHED...FOLLOWED BY A SERIES OF EVENTS IN AND AROUND NEW ENGLAND (NYC, NEW JERSEY, HAMPTONS, NEWPORT, CHATHAM, NANTUCKET). SPECIFICS POSTED BELOW.

SUMMER 2009 EVENTS

Book it!
New Jersey Event
Monday August 10, 7pm
(details coming)

SOUTHAMPTON, NY
BOOKHAMPTON
Saturday August 29, 5pm
Discussion & Signing
with Kaylie Jones
(Kaylie's new book,
Lies My Mother Never Told Me,
will go on sale August 25th)
http://www.bookhampton.typepad.com/


NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
Island Outfitters (Thames Street)
Sunday August 30th &
Monday August 31st - 4pm-7pm
Discussion & Signing
https://www.islandoutfitters.com/stor...


Chatham, MA (Cape Cod)
Where the Sidewalk Ends Bookstore
Thursday Septem

Pre-Summer Beach Read !

For a fun pre-summer beach read be sure to check out Jen Lancaster's new Pretty in Plaid . And for all you Birkin lovers there's even a little surprise in it!

Coming this Summer.....2009 !!!

BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN...........PAPERBACK!!!

HARPERCOLLINS WILL BE RELEASING THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF BHTB ON JULY 21.

NEW YORK TIMES

On the Beach, Under a Tiffany-Blue Sky
By JANET MASLIN

There are two unorthodox things about this summer's most adorable chick-lit book: It's a work of nonfiction, and it's written by a guy. Michael Tonello's "Bringing Home the Birkin," the story of one man's relentless assault on the world's horsiest luxury-goods label, may break the mold a bit, but it does a fine job of fulfilling this genre's basic requirements. It's smart. It's fizzy. It's amusingly snarky, with attitude to burn. The genre's f

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY REVIEW 4/7/2008

Starred Review. In a funny, whip-smart memoir sure to be a sensation among Vogue and W devotees, erstwhile hair and makeup artist Tonello (now a columnist for HuffingtonPost.com) chronicles a surprising (even to him!) trans-Atlantic move from Provincetown, R.I. to a city he'd fallen in love with on a short trip: Barcelona, where he knows no one and doesn't speak the language. Tonello's initial euphoria dissolves when his new job fails to materialize. To stay afloat, Tonello starts selling items

EXCERPT from BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN

...Several months later, I heard through the grapevine that Hermes was opening a shop in Athens in a few weeks. Now possessed of a completely different view of Hermes openings, I immediately picked up the phone and called Paris to try and get a phone number for the Athens shop, and with luck finagle an invitation in the process. No such luck. I racked my brain. Suddenly I remembered Katrin, one of my Birkin clients, who lived in Los Angeles and had a summer home in the Greek islands. I phoned he