基本信息出版社：Miramax
页码：320 页
出版日期：2004年04月
ISBN：1401351964
International Standard Book Number：1401351964
条形码：9781401351960
EAN：9781401351960
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
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Plum Sykes?s beguiling debut welcomes readers to the glamorous world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of the perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM (rich boyfriend), and the ever-elusive fiancé.
With invitations to high-profile baby showers and benefits, more Marc Jacobs clothes than is decent, and a department store heiress for a best friend, our heroine known only as Moi is living at the peak of New York society. But what is Moi to do when her engagement falls apart? Can she ever find happiness in a city filled with the distractions of Front Row Girls, dermatologists, premieres, and eyebrow waxes? Is it possible to find love in a town where her friends think that the secret to happiness is getting invited to the Van Cleef and Arpels über-private sample sale? And how is she going to deal with the endless phone calls from her mother in England demanding that she get married to the Earl next door?
With enormous wit and an insider?s eye, Sykes captures the nuances of the rich and spoiled in a heartwarming social satire, featuring a loveable "champagne bubble of a girl" who?s just looking for love (and maybe the perfect pair of Chloé jeans).
作者简介 Plum Sykes was born in London and educated at Oxford. She is a contributing editor at Vogue where she writes on fashion, society, and Hollywood. She lives in New York City.
媒体推荐 "A diabolically amusing concoction." -- The New York Times
"Bergdorf Blondes is packed with delicious sociological observations." -- People
"Bright and funny, Bergdorf Blondes is haute couture chick lit." -- Candace Bushnell
"Endearingly madcap...a charming fiction debut." -- Teen Vogue
"Even brunettes will smile." -- Newsweek
"Having Sex and the City withdrawal? Cure it with Sykes' debut novel." -- Glamour
"I completely loved it! ?Plum Sykes?channels Nancy Mitford and Holly Golightly with great charm and sweetness." -- Jane Green, author of Mr. Maybe and Jemima J.
"Perfectly pitched?playful, funny, satirical and sweet. I laughed out loud many times." -- Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief, Vogue
"This juicy novel is a fun?make that fabulous?read." -- Star magazine
"This season's 'it' book." -- New York Daily News
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
They're ravenous. They're ruthless. They live in a strictly hierarchical, alpha-dog, eat-or-be-eaten world. No, it's not a rerun of Wild America; it's the world of dressed-to-the-nines Park Avenue heiresses, aka Bergdorf Blondes, botoxed to within an inch of their barely-into-the-third-decade lives. Our unnamed London-born heroine is New York's favorite "champagne-bubble-about-town" and just as effervescent and exhilarating as a fine bottle of Dom Perignon. Blissfully self-interested and flush with the cheeriness that comes from being, well, flush, Miss Disposable Income 2004 sashays her way through New York society in search of the perfect P.H. (Potential Husband)-"Have you any idea how awesome your skin looks if you are engaged?"-and the perfect butt-shaping pair of Chloe jeans. Despair occasionally strikes when her latest prince turns into yet another toad, but it's nothing an invitation to an uber-exclusive Hermes sale and a gallon or so of Bellinis can't fix. She's got the crème de la crème along with her for the ride, including her best friend, the fabulously wealthy heiress Julie Bergdorf, who is tres supportive of her nervous breakdown=You'll be able to dine out on how crazy you went in Paris for months-and a posse of chattering, Harry Winston-bedecked clones with whom to limo around New York. Tacky? Absolutely. But it's impossible not to be massively entertained by a woman who refers euphemistically to oral sex as "going to Rio" in memory of the first man who suggested she get a Brazilian bikini wax, considers vodka a food group and who holds up glamour as the first of the commandments. This is a savvy and viciously funny trip into a glittery, glitzy world we sure wouldn't want to live in-but by which we're more than happy to be vicariously consumed for the length of a book.
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