基本信息出版社：Voice
页码：256 页
出版日期：2008年06月
ISBN：1401322417
International Standard Book Number：1401322417
条形码：9781401322410
EAN：9781401322410
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

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Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips, an occupational hazard, since she works as a stylist and makeup artist for her family's small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts, along with her four half-brothers and -sisters. The owner is her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, a gregarious, three-times-divorced charmer with Donald Trump hair, who is obsessed with all things Italian and still carries a torch for his first wife, Bella's mother. After Bella's own marriage flames out spectacularly when her half-sister runs off with her husband, Bella decides she has seen enough of the damage love can do. She makes a vow: no more men.

Then Bella meets a cute entrepreneur at a college fair, and despite their bickering, they can't seem to stay away from each other. He also gives her a brilliant business idea, one that just might allow her to share her makeup expertise with the world. A small, well-tressed dog finds her way into her life, and her heart, and she decides to chance that, too. When the whole clan heads to Atlanta for a big Southern wedding, sparks fly--in a summer blowout no one will ever forget.

This hilarious, rambunctious novel is pure Claire Cook: full of juicy conflict and unconditional love.
作者简介 Claire Cook is the bestselling author of Life's a Beach, Must Love Dogs, Multiple Choice and Ready to Fall. She teaches workshops for aspiring writers and women coming into their own at midlife, and has had previous stints as a fitness teacher and dance and aerobics choreographer. She lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts, often called the Irish Riviera, with her husband, where they are occasionally visited by their borderline adult children and their laundry.
媒体推荐 "Summer Blowout is as intoxicating as a seat at the top of the Ferris wheel." -- Elin Hilderbrand, author of Barefoot

"Summer Blowout is primed, like Cook's previous novel Must Love Dogs... to become a big-screen romantic comedy." -- Booklist

"As refreshing as an icy drink on a sultry day." -- Family Circle

"Charming, engagingly quirky, and full of fun, Claire Cook just gets it. Summer Blowout is irresistible!" -- Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries series and Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

"Claire Cook is at her irresistible, charming, dishy, can't-put-it-down best." -- Amy Cohen, author of The Late Bloomer's Revolution
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

Cook updates the themes of love and disenchantment that drove Life's a Beach and Must Love Dogs in her latest beacher. Bella Shaughnessy, a makeup artist whose solace in times of hardship is finding just the right lipstick to match her mood, gets a divorce and quits men after discovering that her husband of 10 years has been seeing her younger half-sister, Sophia. During a wedding job, she gets stuck with dog-sitting Precious (who looked kind of like a flying squirrel) and quickly gets so attached that she takes drastic measures to keep the dog. Can other kinds of attachment be far behind, as cute and easygoing Sean Ryan enters the picture? Sufficient comedy and romance keep readers entertained until the last page. (June)
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