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Chasing Harry Winston

Chasing Harry Winston
by Lauren Weisberger
Published in USA May 2008,
288 pages.

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The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing is back with a delicious new novel about a trio of best friends in Manhattan who agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible -- and within one calendar year.

Chasing Harry Winston Reviews

"[A] hilarious, silly and entirely predictable chick lit romp." - Publishers Weekly.

"[T]his book lacks the outsider-looking-in social critique that made Weisberger's best-selling The Devil Wears Prada so entertaining." - Library Journal.

"Weisberger's third effort, with the requisite girls' nights out and disappointing men, has some well-observed passages - and Adriana is a hoot - but it's nothing we haven't seen before, many times." - Kirkus Reviews.

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Lauren Weisberger Author Biography

Lauren Weisberger was born March 28, 1977, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a locale recently made even more chic, if possible, by The Office. She was joined four years later by sister Dana, a.k.a. The Family Favorite, and moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, at age eleven. At Parkland High School, Weisberger participated in all sorts of projects, activities, and organizations for the sole purpose of padding her college application, although she did genuinely enjoy playing varsity tennis (especially when the girl who should have played first singles incurred a season-ending injury and Weisberger had no choice but to step in for the team).

Once matriculated at Cornell University, all civic-minded extracurriculars fell by the wayside. There, she focused her energy...

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