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Following a disastrous night out that began with steaks and martinis and ended in a trip to A&E, Julie Jenson decides that she and her four single friends are doing something wrong.
Between them, there's more dysfunction and disappointment than she can handle.
So Julie quits her job and sets off to discover how women around the world deal with the dreaded phenomenon of the Single Life. From proud Parisiennes to intense Italians, from ice-cool Icelanders to brazen Brazilians, Julie attempts to learn the secrets of these women's success.
Will she come back with the answers? Or will her journey of self-discovery take her in another direction entirely ...
About the Author
A former story editor on Sex and the City and co-author (with Greg Behrendt) of the bestselling He's Just Not That Into You, Liz Tuccillo lives and dates in New York City.
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I read a lot of travel memoirs, particularly from a female writer's travelling experience. I must say, i really enjoy American authors, they write very well, they engage the reader and you actually feel you're amongst the characters. Although this time i selected a fiction, this book has become another great addition to my bookshelf. A nice light read, entertaining, the perfect companion read for single women!
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A self-appointed ambassador for American women studies her single sisters around the world.This debut novel from Sex and the City writer Tuccillo (co-author: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys, 2004) stars NYC publicist Julie Jensen and a quartet of her obsessive friends. New age convert Serena contemplates a vow of celibacy while high-powered attorney Alice quits her job to husband-hunt full time. Meanwhile, maniacal divorcee Georgia is furious over her husband's infidelity with a samba dancer while fragile wallflower Ruby channels her own depression into volunteer work euthanizing pets. During a girls' night out, Julie experiences a moment of clarity: "My God, we are pathetic creatures. We are lawyers and publicists and businesswomen and mothers with blow-dried hair and lipstick, all just waiting for the sun of male attention to shine down upon us and make us feel alive again." Armed with an emboldened sense of her own self-worth, she sets off on a world-spanning Grand Tour to investigate how single life translates across cultures. With stops in Paris, Rome, Rio, Bali and Beijing, the fictional tour (based largely upon the author's real-life global research) features a plethora of rhetorical questions about men, women and missed connections, punctuated by charismatic cameos from an unrepentant French philanderer, a Brazilian porn star and a feisty Aussie self-help guru, among other rare specimens. Back in Manhattan, the ensemble's neuroses rear their ugly heads as Georgia endangers her children over a boyfriend, Serena contemplates sex with her swami and Ruby stalks gay couples to father her child. When Tuccillo captures the surprising contradictions of relationships, as when Jensen discovers the unlikely happiness of an Indian woman's arranged marriage, she scores. But Julie's giggly sexcapades and her compatriot's ill-advised misadventures, while passably entertaining, are about as psychologically nourishing as a half-hour of television. In fact, too much of the book is reminiscent of Sex and the City.Sex in a bunch of different cities. (Kirkus Reviews)
ISBN: 9781416527565
ISBN-10: 1416527567
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 407
Published: 5th January 2009
Dimensions (cm): 19.4 x 12.8
x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.286
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