Trading Up

With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with Sex and the City changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, and the love of a good pair of Manolos, now brings us a sharply observant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter day comedy of manners. Modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox is a lingerie model whose reach often exceeds her grasp, and whose new-found success has gone to her head. As we follow Janey's adventures, Bushnell draws us into a seemingly glamorous world of $100,000 cars, hunky polo players and media moguls, Fifth Avenue apartments, and relationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by the socially astute. But just as Janey enters this world of too much money and too few morals, unseen forces conspire to bring her down, forcing her to reexamine her values about love and friendship--and how far she's really willing to go to realize her dreams.

Author: Candace Bushnell
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 07/01/2003
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.38w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9780786868186

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2003 pg. 623
Booklist 04/15/2003 pg. 1426
USA Today 05/22/2003 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2003 pg. 48
Booklist 05/01/2003 pg. 1507
Library Journal 06/01/2003 pg. 163
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2003 pg. 140
USA Today 07/01/2003 pg. 1
New York Times 07/13/2003 pg. 4

About the Author
Candace Bushnell is the internationally bestselling novelist whose first book, Sex and the City, was the basis for the HBO hit series and blockbuster movies. She is the author of seven novels, including Lipstick Jungle and The Carrie Diaries, which were made into popular TV series. She is the winner of the 2006 Matrix Award for books and a recipient of the Albert Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award.