Bushnell's third novel, “Trading Up” (2003) is a wickedly funny social satire about a lingerie model whose reach exceeds her grasp and whose new-found success has gone to her head. The book takes place in the months leading up to 9/11, and portrays a wearily decadent society. This sharply observant, keenly funny comedy of manners is Bushnell at her most sassy and entertaining. The New York Times has called Bushnell “The philosopher queen of the social scene.” Trading Up is currently in production at Lifetime.
In “Lipstick Jungle,” Bushnell’s fourth novel, Bushnell explores our assumptions about gender roles in family and career. The book follows three high-powered friends as they weather the ups and downs of lives lived at the top of their game. Salon magazine called Bushnell’s work “ahead of the curve,” and once again, with “Lipstick Jungle,” Bushnell captures the paradigm of a new breed of career woman facing modern challenges and choices.
With “Sex and the City,” Bushnell captured the country’s attention by breaking down the bedroom doors of New York’s rich and beautiful and exposing the true story of sex, love and relationships. Bushnell’s writing introduced the nation to “modelizers,” “toxic bachelors,” and the women who are looking for Mr. Big as they glide in and out of the star-studded social scene.
Added by: LizzyBennet | Karma: 89.03 | Fiction literature | 9 November 2009
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Another look at the tough and tender women of New York City from Candance Bushnell, the author of Sex and the City, Trading Up, and Lipstick Jungle. In One Fifth Avenue, Bushnell tells the intertwined stories of five women at one swanky Manhattan address. One Fifth is The Building - the chicest, the hottest, the one with the best pedigree, the one with all the most interesting people. And within its gorgeous, thick, pre-war walls, fortunes fall and rise in the early days of the new millenium.
