Trading Up

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 07/01/2003
ISBN: 9780786868186
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.38w x 1.26d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2003 pg. 623
Booklist 04/15/2003 pg. 1426
USA Today 05/22/2003 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2003 pg. 48
Booklist 05/01/2003 pg. 1507
Library Journal 06/01/2003 pg. 163
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2003 pg. 140
USA Today 07/01/2003 pg. 1
New York Times 07/13/2003 pg. 4