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Lipstick Jungle
by Candace Bushnell
The "Sex and the City" author's fourth novel follows three women who are among New York City's movers and shakers: a movie executive, a magazine editor, and a fashion designer.
Hyperion, 368 pages
09/06/2005
$24.95
ISBN: 0786868198
Fiction
General Literature & Fiction
All reviews are classified as one of five grades: Outstanding (4 points), Favorable (3), Mixed (2), Unfavorable (1) and Terrible (0). To calculate the Metascore, we divide total points achieved by the total points possible (i.e., 4 x the number of reviews), with the resulting percentage (multiplied by 100) being the Metascore. Learn more...
Booklist Kristine Huntley
Readers who want to immerse themselves in the trendy world of New York's high society will find themselves at home in this scintillating novel. [1 Jun 2005, p. 1711]
Boston Globe Diane White
It's trashy good fun, and easy to read.
Chicago Sun-Times Debra Pickett
This is Bushnell's best work since Sex and the City, since it includes all of her great strengths, from sexual truth-telling to a nearly scientific mastery of the anthropology of New York's social elite.
New York Observer Laura Moore
Fans of Ms. Bushnell's earlier novels will delight in the descriptions
that give Lipstick Jungle its brilliant gloss. [19 Sep 2005, p. 19]
Publishers Weekly
Bushnell's emphasis on female friendship and career ambition may... win her a legion of new readers. [11 Jul 2005, p. 60]
Salon Ann Marlowe
What Bushnell does so well is to get just the slightest bit ahead of the curve. Just as her "Sex and the City" girls are more common now than they were in the days of her New York Observer columns, so the coarse, energetic woman tycoons of "Lipstick Jungle" might be signposts for the years ahead.
The New York Times Book Review Liesl Schillinger
It's refreshing, in the pool of chick lit, to float in the Machiavellian head space of ruthless women for whom "the rules" have nothing to do with husband-hunting
Library Journal Andrea Y. Griffith
Although the novel has its share of awkward plot machinations, Bushnell is skilled enough to create likable yet strong characters who ultimately draw in the reader. [1 Aug 2005, p. 65]
Los Angeles Times Carol Wolper
Contemporary novels about successful independent women in their 40s may not require towers of testosterone, but without any formidable male presence in this chronicle, we're left with the equivalent of "Sex and the City" without a guy like Big. It may be a realistic look at what life is like for these characters, but it's truth at the cost of juice. [13 Sep 2005, p. E8]
Washington Post Claudia Deane
The men here are fairly two-dimensional, but then the book isn't really about them. And unless you occasionally think your $1,000 sheets aren't quite soft enough, you probably won't be able to relate to the lifestyles. But as a light but piercing look at life beyond the glass ceiling, it works just fine.
The Guardian Stephanie Merritt
While this may be an empowering (if arid) manifesto for women, all this realism is a lot less fun to read. But perhaps that's the price you pay for growing up.
Entertainment Weekly Jennifer Armstrong
While entertaining, Bushnell's been down this work-versus-love-versus-motherhood runway many, many times before.
Kirkus Reviews
If this is having it all, who wants it? [15 Jun 2005, p. 651]
The Independent Katy Guest
Lipstick Jungle has been hailed by some as a feminist treatise. Here are women playing a man's game, and winning. They have affairs and get away with it, screw men in the boardroom, not the bedroom, and buy their way out of sticky situations. But the problem is not that successful women are a frightening challenge to the social norm. The problem is that these women are horrible.
The Guardian Carrie O'Grady
Does the world really need a book that expresses the pain of an abandoned wife and mother with the words "Arggghhhh", "Arggggggh" and "Arggggh"?
Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Crowley
Alas, calculating, arrogant females are not more likable than calculating, arrogant men. If the reader is supposed to sympathize with these "lipstick jungle" warriors, it is hard to imagine how or why.
The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Maggie Mortimer
Save your money, save your brain cells. Don't buy this book.
Don't even think about it. [8 Oct 2005]
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