" Fascinating... hilarious... Welcome to the cruel planet that is Manhattan. " — Los Angeles Times

 

" Sly... Sharp... Sex and the City succeeds. " — People

Welcome to the age of un-innocence...

Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs.

Meet "Carrie," the quintessential young writer looking for Candace Bushnell love in all the wrong places... "Mr Big," the business tycoon who drifts from one relationship to another... "Samantha Jones," the fortyish, successful, "testosterone woman" who uses sex like a man... not to mention "Psycho Moms, " "Bicycle Boys," "International Crazy Girls," and the rest of the New Yorkers who inspired one of the most watched TV series of our time. You've seen them on HBO, now listen to the book that started it all...

Cynthia Nixon has been acting professionally since the age of 12, in television, theater and film. She is probably best known by her Emmy Winning performance as Miranda Hobbes of the much celebrated HBO series Sex and the City , for which she also received two other Emmy nominations and four consecutive Golden Globe nominations. Her numerous Broadway stage credits include The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Indiscretions, Angels In America, Hurlyburly, The Real Thing and The Philadelphia Story . Ms. Nixon's film career began with Ronald E Maxwell's Little Darlings and, she went on to appear in Amadeus, The Pelican Brief, Baby's Day Out , and Let it Ride .

A woman has many things to worry about, being too successful, too beautiful, too smart, too rich, too accomplished...some guys may find the stupid, 20th C girls charming, but in the book, we can find four smart, beautiful, interesting, successful and confident women showing their life to us--a life about men, sex, and the city.