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Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

Lipstick Jungle

by Candace Bushnell

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  • Sep 2005, 368 pages
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The new novel that fans of the bestselling author (Sex In The City etc) have been waiting for, about three sexy, powerful career women who will do anything to stay at the top of their fields

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'Readers who want to immerse themselves in the trendy world of New York's high society will find themselves at home in this scintillating novel.' - Booklist.
'These women are selfish, self-centered and not at all likeable....[they] also share a deep streak of unhappiness that Bushnell's too-easy happy ending does not erase. If this is having it all, who wants it?

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Candace Bushnell Author Biography

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From Sex and the City through seven successive novels, Candace Bushnell has revealed a gift for tapping into the zeitgeist of any New York minute. With each book, she has deepened her range but with a light touch that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy.

Bushnell (b. Dec. 1, 1958) grew up in Glastonbury, CT, and moved to New York City at age 19. She attended Rice University and New York University, and began her professional career at 19 when she wrote a children's book for Simon & Schuster. Throughout her twenties, Bushnell developed her trademark style as a freelancer, writing darkly humorous pieces about women, relationships and dating for Mademoiselle, Self Magazine, and Esquire. In 1990, she wrote a column that would become a precursor for Sex and the City, ...

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