- Hardcover: 245 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0871138190
- ISBN-13: 978-0871138194
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,888,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Candace Bushnell made her reputation as the creator of the hit US TV series Sex and the City, based on her book of the same name (based in turn on her Eros-intensive New York Observer column). In Four Blondes, she returns with a quartet of novellas on her favourite 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 you 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 realises 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 is 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.
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 trawls for the so-called 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, the Bushnell's ironic takes on the sexual foibles of the rich and famous are mordant, mischievous fun. --Lesley Reed --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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FOUR BLONDES charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but can't get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnist's floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husband's career fails to live up to her expectations; a 'Cinderella' records her descent into paranoia in her journal as she realises she wants anybody's life except her own; an artist and aging 'It girl' - who fears that her time for finding a man has run out - travels to London in search of the kind of love and devotion she can't find in Manhattan...Studded with her trademark wit and stiletto-heel-sharp insight, FOUR BLONDES is dark, true, and compulsively readable.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I expected a witty, clever book knowing the authors previous work and finding it really funny. Unfortunately what I found wasn't quite up to my expectations. The book is split into four stories which appear to have no point to them(the first of which is the best.) I was left feeling dissatisfied with the lack of real plot. Even though Sex and the City is just a bit of fun it does have a point to it. Out of the four tales in 'Four Blondes' I felt, unfortunately, that only one did.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Most readers will probably come to this book via being fans of T.V.'s "Sex & The City". Which, in a way, is a pity - it means a lot of other people will miss out on it. Yes, there are elements here the show has picked up on - but with an added depth (or shallowness?) of human life. Think 21st century Damon Runyon, with a femail bias, and you just about have it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
aside from the fact this book is insulting to english people,its also a poor novel.From the authour of the brilliant,if shallow,Trading Up I expected so much better.Not worth your time.
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Complete pants
Being a brit the fourth story didn't bother me too much, i don't take american opinions very seriously, but really the whole book was complete and utter rubbish, each story had no... Read more
Published on 18 May 2009 by Carol Barnes
Shallow, unoriginal and dull
Being a major fan of Sex and the City I was quite looking forward to reading this book. What a mistake on my part... Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2007 by S. L. Williams
Good, but not amazing
I normally love Candace Bushnell books, but i have to admit that even though this one was quite interesting, it didn't quite... take off. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2006 by E. Exintaris
Satire and the City
I was extremely pleased with Four Blondes. I had very much enjoyed reading Sex and the City for its dark humour and wit, and had assumed that Four Blondes would be unlikely to live... Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2005 by Ella
Be Careful What You Wish For . . . You May Get It!
4 Blondes is three novellas and a short story about the beautiful and aspiring women in New York City. Read more
Published on 13 July 2004 by Donald Mitchell
TERRIBLE!
This book is easily one of the worst I have ever read. Ever! Can this atrocity really have been brought to us by the creator of Sex & The City? Surely not! Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2004
Four Blondes
I found all of the stories interesting but it seemed they didn't have enough time to get going before they were abruptly ended with no real conclusion or point.
Published on 24 Feb 2004
Bring back book burning
This book is a complete waste of time.Four very very bad stories with characters that are boring .The fourth story is the worst the auther if you can call her that just uses this... Read more
Published on 10 July 2003
Satires on self-obsessed NY "money"- bit trashy though
Candice Bushnell creates some insigtful writing on the vain and sex obsessed New York elite. Unfortuantly it suffers from absolutly none of the characters being likable and... Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2002 by Alex Magpie
Horrible characters, but addictive anyway.
I found this compulsive reading. Yes, the protagonists are largely vile, shallow, self-obsessed horrors, but I hate Goody-Two-Shoes, and since when was a novelist obliged to write... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2002
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