- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Warner Trade Paperback; Reissue edition (Sep 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0446673544
- ISBN-13: 978-0446673549
- Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 1.9 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 786,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Relationships in New York are about detachment. But how do you get attached when you want to?"
Candace Bushnell, in the divinely bitchy Sex and the City, answers this question by introducing a formidable corps of successful grown-ups who are each "up to their cuffs in polished cynicism". Fully equipped with high credit limits, high heels and a never-ending supply of condoms, they storm their way through the stars and bars of New York doing drugs, drink and sex and treading the dangerous waters between the easy-living twentysomething years and the last-chance thirtysomethings.
As successful and smart single women work their way through Married Men and Modelisers (men who will only date models), Serial Daters and Perennial Bachelors, watching forlornly as the occasional Happily Married pops in to remind themselves how lucky they are, Bushnell irreverently dives in and out of varying habitats, eavesdropping on shabby lives decorated with Gold Cards and Designer Labels and taking the reader on an anthropological tour of the underbelly of the rich and the richer on their endless search for fulfilment.
Painfully sharp, often poignant and chock full with more truth than anyone would really like to admit, Sex and the City is a harem-scarem, casually vicious but ultimately thorough dissing of a thirtysomething world where gloss and glamour can never compensate for The Real Thing, and where eventually Settling is the only answer. --Susan Harrison --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Intriguing and highly entertaining (Helen Fielding, author of BRIDGET JONES’ )
DIARY ('Imagine Jane Austen with a martini, or perhaps Jonathan Swift on rollerblades’ )
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ('Imagine THE SUN edited by Jane Austen … hilarious … a compulsively readable book, served on bite-sized chunks of irrepressible irreverence.’ )
MARIE CLAIRE ('Irresistable, hilarious and horrific, stylishly written. You might be appalled but anyone who lives here will recognise that Candace Bushnell has captured the big black truth. The only people who won't succumb to the book's very real charms are the ones ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
DIARY ('Imagine Jane Austen with a martini, or perhaps Jonathan Swift on rollerblades’ )
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ('Imagine THE SUN edited by Jane Austen … hilarious … a compulsively readable book, served on bite-sized chunks of irrepressible irreverence.’ )
MARIE CLAIRE ('Irresistable, hilarious and horrific, stylishly written. You might be appalled but anyone who lives here will recognise that Candace Bushnell has captured the big black truth. The only people who won't succumb to the book's very real charms are the ones ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am a huge fan of the humour and insight shown on the TV series Sex and the City. Unfortunately this book is nothing like it - just an inane selection of conversations with no apparent point or punch-line.
This book is poorly written and lacks the likeable characters featured on the TV series.
The many Americanisms and references to people only Americans have heard of, also makes it a difficult read for people outside the US.
My advice. Don't bother.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Since I am a fan of the TV series, I treated myself to this book .....What a mistake !! The screenwriter is to be congratulated in making a silk purse from a sow's ear...the book is noticeably lacking in the wit and charm that pervades the series..Just a set of boring monologues ......
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read the reviews on amazon before buying this book, but thought it couldn't possibly be that bad, believe me it IS! It was awful, stick to the tv series
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Sex and the City
Have to be honest, although hate saying it but not what I expected at all. Was very disappointed with this book, found it very hard to follow and was very different from the HBO tv... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ciara B
don't bother! just watch the series/film again instead
This book is honestly one of the worst reads of my life.
I bought it, like a lot of others, as I love the TV series. Read more
I bought it, like a lot of others, as I love the TV series. Read more
Published 2 months ago by avid reader
It is what it is!
The story lines are banal, the writing is basic-in fact, I was most shocked by the inferiority of the writing- I dont know how this woman actually got anything published as a... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Camilla
Try not to compare it to the TV show
Like most people I watched the show before buying the book. I love the show and I loved this book but only when I thought of them separately, obviously to make the stories into a... Read more
Published 8 months ago by C. Shields
Disgusting
wow were to begin a total waste of time and money. Did not even read it to the end. Lacks the glamor, spontaneousness and glitz of the TV show and movie. Too erotic for my taste. Read more
Published 17 months ago by sweetness
HMMM
Perhaps my first mistake was expecting it to be like the TV show.
Its not.
My next mistake was hoping it would make sense and be coherent.
Its not. Read more
Its not.
My next mistake was hoping it would make sense and be coherent.
Its not. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Kmstevenson
Forget the book and watch the TV series instead
I started this book on the back of watching the hit TV and film series. The book is broken down into diary entries (although not dated) which gives it somewhat of a bitty feel. Read more
Published 20 months ago by lachbc
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The book arrived promptly and was in the condition described by the seller, however I do think that the seller should have removed the Oxfam charity shop sticker from the back of... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Francesca
Dreadful- I'd rate zero stars if I could
Terrible, TOTALLY unlinke the television characters- the book is purely about how amazing Carrie believes herself to be, and unlike the series, the debates and questions raised are... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ali
Bushnell must have friends in high places!
The praise for the book jacket were phenomenal, as I expected as I adored the TV series as well as the films. Read more
Published 22 months ago by kencokamo
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