- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown; First Edition edition (31 Dec 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316728357
- ISBN-13: 978-0316728355
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,446,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In her fourth novel, THE LIPSTICK JUNGLE, best- selling author Candace Bushnell re-creates a real-life world as compelling and fascinating as SEX AND THE CITY. Based on Bushnell's observations about life in a city filled with bright, ambitious and successful women, this is a world in which the women are often more powerful than the men, and the rules about relationships are meant to be broken. In THE LIPSTICK JUNGLE, high fashion meets the powerful women who actually wear it. Victory Ford, fashion designer: Single, beautiful, creative and unconventional she is the darling of the fashion world; Nico O'Neilly, editor-in-chief: Glamorous and powerful she is married with an eight-year-old daughter and is the brilliant editor of Bonfire Magazine - the pop-culture bible. Wendy Healy, President, Parador Pictures; A down-to earth, hard working mother of three, she is one of the most important and successful women in the cutthroat movie business. Following these determined but likeable leading ladies through the ups and downs of their careers, their marriages and their affairs, Candace Bushnell shows us how three strong women stay at the top of their fields in the toughest town in the world.
About the Author
Candace Bushnell is the creator of SEX AND THE CITY and has been described by the EVENING STANDARD as a 'genius'. The OBSERVER compared her to Nancy Mitford and the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH to 'Jane Austen with a Martini.'
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Loved, Loved, Loved This Book!!!!!!
15 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
My favorite thing about this book it that I, and also each of my friends, have picked out a favorite character. Wendy, Nico, and Victory are all such vibrant, interesting, and very different women. My favorite is Victory. She is independent and owns her own company, something I want for myself one day. She's fiercely creative, and she always speaks her mind, even when it gets her in trouble. She's such a quirky and unique personality that I feel so personally close to. I can understand her, especially when she realizes that she pushes men away because she is afraid of getting too close to them. When she realized this I felt like I was realizing it for the first time too. This is one of those rare books that can make you think about your own life in a new way.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A Book About Real Issues
15 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
I loved this book! I felt that Candace wasn't afraid to tackle some major issues, mainly the idea of happiness. Happiness is such a critical puzzle, and its ingredients shift (and deepen in complexity) with age. I also loved that Candace showed how wisdom and opportunity have truly, finally, turned the tables on so many of the old feminist struggles, and old sexual clichés, without solving them per se.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Captivating
9 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
In Candace Bushnell's new novel we meet three forty-something career women all holding powerful positions in the fast-paced, dog-eat-dog city of New York. This glamorous middle-aged trio do not waste time during their power lunches obsessing about men. In the case of these women, it's career first--men and family second.
Wendy is a movie executive. Determined to win an oscar for her current project, she didn't notice that spoiled stay-at-home hubby is getting antsy. Victory's spring fashion disaster has her so busy putting out fires, billionaire boyfriend is viewed as nothing more than a side order on her full plate. Then there's Nico, editor-in-chief of a thriving magazine who is cheating on her university professor husband (just for the sex)with a boy toy male model.
Although these women appear to lead glamorous and enviable lives, the reader quickly learns that these high-power women are just like the rest of us and at some point (for most women) despite success, the question: What's really important?" always comes up. Another great read by Bushnell.
Wendy is a movie executive. Determined to win an oscar for her current project, she didn't notice that spoiled stay-at-home hubby is getting antsy. Victory's spring fashion disaster has her so busy putting out fires, billionaire boyfriend is viewed as nothing more than a side order on her full plate. Then there's Nico, editor-in-chief of a thriving magazine who is cheating on her university professor husband (just for the sex)with a boy toy male model.
Although these women appear to lead glamorous and enviable lives, the reader quickly learns that these high-power women are just like the rest of us and at some point (for most women) despite success, the question: What's really important?" always comes up. Another great read by Bushnell.
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