Trading Up

Name: Trading Up
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Candace Bushnell
ISBN: 9781401385309

Author: Candace Bushnell

Narrator: Mira Sorvino

Abridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 07/01/2003

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with Sex and the City changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, and the love of a good pair of Manolos, now brings us a sharply observant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter day comedy of manners.

Modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox is a lingerie model whose reach often exceeds her grasp, and whose new-found success has gone to her head. As we follow Janey's adventures, Bushnell draws us into a seemingly glamorous world of $100,000 cars, hunky polo players and media moguls, Fifth Avenue apartments, and relationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by the socially astute.

But just as Janey enters this world of too much money and too few morals, unseen forces conspire to bring her down, forcing her to reexamine her values about love and friendship--and how far she's really willing to go to realize her dreams.

About Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Carrie Diaries, Sex and the City, Is There Still Sex in the City?, Lipstick Jungle, One Fifth Avenue, 4 Blondes, Trading Up, and Summer and the City, which have sold millions of copies. Sex and the City was the basis for the HBO hit shows and films, and its prequel, The Carrie Diaries, was the basis for the CW television show of the same name. Lipstick Jungle became a popular television show on NBC. Is There Still Sex in the City? is in development with Paramount Television. Candace lives in New York City and Sag Harbor. Visit her at www.candacebushnell.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on August 03, 2023

I couldn't get into this at all, I just couldn't get into the story line or relate to the characters. Two stars.......more

Goodreads review by Cyndi on April 28, 2020

This book had the chance to become memorable, then kept falling short of it. The heroine was not only hard to like, but hard to pen down into a character. She jumped around too much. One minute a terrible person, the next a not so terrible person. I probably would have put it down and gotten another......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on May 13, 2009

I read a lot of reviews on here before I read this book. I was almost talked out of reading it because they were so negative. But I had already bought it at goodwill, so I went ahead and read it. The character this book is based on is in fact a horrible, shallow, nasty person, but I found myself lik......more

Goodreads review by David on February 12, 2013

It's a fun read. I was rooting for the main character the whole way! This is a continuation from one of the stories in "Four Blondes", read that one first and you won't be disappointed. This certainly isn't going to be a book that challenges the social norm or makes you look particularly smart on th......more

Goodreads review by Machel on July 26, 2018

Wow, not sure how I have missed these book on my bookshelves on Goodreads. Can I just say, I loved this book? I loved Janey Wilcox. I liked the dirty mix of the socialites with ulterior motives, the 'the one-upping' and just the candid fun journey of Janey trying to pry her way to the top. This book......more