Lipstick Jungle

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• Sex is an ex in the city

  Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell Abacus £6.99, pp432 If you ran a computer search to find the most frequently used word in Candace Bushnell's new novel, it would almost certainly be 'successful', closely followed by 'power', 'money', 'rich', 'wome ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• City slickers

  Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell 432pp, Abacus, £6.99 "September is glorious in Manhattan, and this year was no exception." It's hard for anyone who watched Sex and the City, the hit TV series based on Bushnell's column in the New York Observer, n ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

5 Reviews

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  There are two reading keys for this book. You can appreciate the author's ability to build up three stories of successful women, effectively entwining the plot and leaving no chance to bump into dull moments. Or you can realize that years of female emancipation have brought women and men to play th ... (continue)

  There are two reading keys for this book. You can appreciate the author's ability to build up three stories of successful women, effectively entwining the plot and leaving no chance to bump into dull moments. Or you can realize that years of female emancipation have brought women and men to play the same game with the same rules and one goal: be extraordinary rich, possibly with a terrace over Central Park. So depressing.

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  Elena Mc said on Jan 18, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Easy and interesting. Bushnell wrote it in simple and straight forward language. I like the three main characters, the successfull businesswomen in their early forty.

  But Bushnell seldom linked them together, making the whole book like three separate and independent stories. She also used too ... (continue)

  Easy and interesting. Bushnell wrote it in simple and straight forward language. I like the three main characters, the successfull businesswomen in their early forty.

  But Bushnell seldom linked them together, making the whole book like three separate and independent stories. She also used too much confusing flashbacks.

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  Purple Rain said on Jan 24, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  I really loved this book, it trapped me and I actually couldn't stop reading it...I felt so sorry when it was over! Candace Bushnell did a great job!

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  Bleedindarklove said on Jul 14, 2008 | Add your feedback

• bored me to tears!!

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  Mil Arce said on Apr 1, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  A disappointing offering from CB after SATC, Four Blondes and Trading Up... a thin, predictable plot and characters that I've already forgotten.

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  SpaghettiPrincess said on Jul 2, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 448 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0349119090
• ISBN-13: 9780349119090
• Publisher: Abacus
• Pub date: Sep 12, 2005
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 645 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken

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