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Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? follows a cohort of female friends--Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn, and Candace--as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. There's ""Cubbing,"" in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the ""Mona Lisa"" Treatment--a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle aged women, and what it's really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcee. From the high highs (My New Boyfriend or MNBs) to the low lows (Middle Age Madness, or MAM cycles), Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today's relationship landscape and the types that roam it. Drawing from her own experience, in Is There Still Sex in the City? Bushnell spins a smart, lively satirical story of love and life from all angles--marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all. This is an indispensable companion to one of the most revolutionary dating books of the twentieth century from one of our most important social commentators.

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Praise for Sex and the City Bushnell [is] the modern flame carrier of an established literary tradition: that of American (usually New York) women writers depicting the rigid social and slackening sexual rules of a very particular American (and, again, usually New York) set through a mix of close personal knowledge and fiction. Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy can all be cited, in varying degrees, as Bushnell's predecessors, with a bit of Elaine Dundy thrown in...Compared with the hugely popular television series, the book is tough, unapologetic and jittery with anxiety.... hilarious, hard-edged, delightful, harsh, elegant and fun. --The Guardian The book that sparked a cultural phenomenon. --Oprah I did not move to New York because I watched Sex and the City. I moved to New York because I read it...[it is] dark and cynical and weird....Everyone is mean, and selfish, and complicated, and many of them are not rich, and most of them have wardrobes that go unmentioned... All are reported with Bushnell's savvy reporter's eye. --Garage Vice Fascinating....Hilarious. --Los Angeles Times Sly...Sharp. --People Praise for The Carrie Diaries If ever a book resounded with positive messages for young people, it's this one. --USA Today An enjoyable romp of a read. --Entertainment Weekly An addictive, ingenious origin story. --Los Angeles Times

Praise for IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY? A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER for US WEEKLY, ELLE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEWSDAY, and POPSUGAR Calling all Carrie Bradshaw fans: Bushnell returns two decades after Sex and the City with a new book about sex and dating after 50. --US WEEKLY, Hot Reads Is there still sex in the city? Obviously. But you don't want any dummy telling you about it. Candace Bushnell only. The original! --ELLE MAGAZINE, Best Books to read this summer It's hard out there for a cougar. But for Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, it's exactly the age when women need her the most. Her latest book addresses ...women in their 50s and 60s who suddenly find themselves dating again. As with its predecessor [Sex and the City] there is no shortage of catchphrase-worthy sentiments. --ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, summer's hottest reads Like its predecessor, it's a dishy report on the friendships and sex lives of New Yorkers, now inescapably middle-aged. --NEWSDAY, best summer books You know the title. You watched the show. Maybe you even saw the movies. Candace Bushnell is back doing what she knows best: chronicling the lives of women and how they find love. This time, she turns her lens on middle-aged men and women, and the result is pure magic. At turns wistful and sad, thoughtful and funny, Is There Still Sex In The City? is even better than the original. --POPSUGAR, best new books to put in your beach bag It's hard out there for a cougar. But for Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, it's exactly the age when women need her the most.... Her latest book addresses women in their 50s and 60s who suddenly find themselves dating again. --YAHOO ENTERTAINMENT, summer books preview A collection of commentaries and recounted hijinks (and lojinks)... Sometimes funny, sometimes silly, sometimes quite sad--i.e., an accurate portrait of life in one's 50s. --KIRKUS REVIEWS Praise for SEX AND THE CITY Bushnell [is] the modern flame carrier of an established literary tradition: that of American (usually New York) women writers depicting the rigid social and slackening sexual rules of a very particular American (and, again, usually New York) set through a mix of close personal knowledge and fiction. Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy can all be cited, in varying degrees, as Bushnell's predecessors, with a bit of Elaine Dundy thrown in...Compared with the hugely popular television series, the book is tough, unapologetic and jittery with anxiety.... hilarious, hard-edged, delightful, harsh, elegant and fun. --THE GUARDIAN The book that sparked a cultural phenomenon. --OPRAH I did not move to New York because I watched Sex and the City. I moved to New York because I read it...[it is] dark and cynical and weird....Everyone is mean, and selfish, and complicated, and many of them are not rich, and most of them have wardrobes that go unmentioned... All are reported with Bushnell's savvy reporter's eye. --GARAGE VICE Fascinating....Hilarious. --LOS ANGELES TIMES Sly...Sharp. --PEOPLE

Praise for IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY? A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER for US WEEKLY, ELLE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEWSDAY, and POPSUGAR Perhaps no one has better excavated our kinky underpinnings than Candace Bushnell author of the original 'Sex and the City' columns and progenitor of the show that made Manolo a household name. Fifteen years after Carrie Bradshaw sighed her last 'I couldn't help but wonder, ' Bushnell is back with Is There Still Sex in the City?. The protagonist, Candace, is a recently divorced writer who trades her Manhattan life for a cottage in the Hamptons...[the book is] brimming with the snappy rhetorical questions and taxonomic acronyms that became Bushnell's signature back in the stiletto days... While Carrie was a bright-eyed anthropologist, Candace and her friends are survivalists; even beyond the City, it's a jungle out there. --LAUREN MECHLING, VOGUE What comes after cosmos and toxic bachelors? Fueled by chilled rose, Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell is masterfully decoding a new era of single life. --USA TODAY From Cosmos to rose, her current beverage of choice, Bushnell may drink pink. But she knows how to write dark. --ASSOCIATED PRESS Sometimes it can be fun to wonder what became of our fictional heroines... what of Carrie Bradshaw? After she bagged her Mr. Big, did she list her $40,000 shoe collection on eBay, move to the suburbs, have a bunch of kids and grow old gracefully? Or did Carrie find herself in her 50s child-free, single again and wondering how to get back in the game, only to have her gynecologist recommend a Mona Lisa laser treatment because 'your vagina is not flexible enough'? Ugh. Such are the humiliations awaiting the female in middle age. That you-gotta-laugh-or-you-cry place is where Candace Bushnell, with her usual sparkling candor, begins Is There Still Sex in the City?. --Allison Pearson, NEW YORK TIMES Bushnell's voice is as knowing and sharp as ever... As with SATC's 'toxic bachelors' and 'modelizers, ' there's a new taxonomy: 'Cubbing, ' the pursuit of older women by younger men; or 'MAM, ' for middle-aged madness, a late-onset midlife crisis for women. She also updates a chapter on 'bicycle boys' -- then, the charmingly rumpled literary types on vintage bikes, now wealthy guys in Lycra. --Jancee Dun, WASHINGTON POST Calling all Carrie Bradshaw fans: Bushnell returns two decades after Sex and the City with a new book about sex and dating after 50. --US WEEKLY, Hot Reads Is there still sex in the city? Obviously. But you don't want any dummy telling you about it. Candace Bushnell only. The original! --ELLE MAGAZINE, Best Books to read this summer It's hard out there for a cougar. But for Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, it's exactly the age when women need her the most. Her latest book addresses ...women in their 50s and 60s who suddenly find themselves dating again. As with its predecessor [Sex and the City] there is no shortage of catchphrase-worthy sentiments. --ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, summer's hottest reads Like its predecessor, it's a dishy report on the friendships and sex lives of New Yorkers, now inescapably middle-aged. --NEWSDAY, best summer books You know the title. You watched the show. Maybe you even saw the movies. Candace Bushnell is back doing what she knows best: chronicling the lives of women and how they find love. This time, she turns her lens on middle-aged men and women, and the result is pure magic. At turns wistful and sad, thoughtful and funny, Is There Still Sex In The City? is even better than the original. --POPSUGAR, best new books to put in your beach bag A collection of commentaries and recounted hijinks (and lojinks)... Sometimes funny, sometimes silly, sometimes quite sad--i.e., an accurate portrait of life in one's 50s. --KIRKUS REVIEWS Praise for SEX AND THE CITY Bushnell [is] the modern flame carrier of an established literary tradition: that of American (usually New York) women writers depicting the rigid social and slackening sexual rules of a very particular American (and, again, usually New York) set through a mix of close personal knowledge and fiction. Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy can all be cited, in varying degrees, as Bushnell's predecessors, with a bit of Elaine Dundy thrown in...Compared with the hugely popular television series, the book is tough, unapologetic and jittery with anxiety.... hilarious, hard-edged, delightful, harsh, elegant and fun. --THE GUARDIAN The book that sparked a cultural phenomenon. --OPRAH I did not move to New York because I watched Sex and the City. I moved to New York because I read it...[it is] dark and cynical and weird....Everyone is mean, and selfish, and complicated, and many of them are not rich, and most of them have wardrobes that go unmentioned... All are reported with Bushnell's savvy reporter's eye. --GARAGE VICE Fascinating....Hilarious. --LOS ANGELES TIMES Sly...Sharp. --PEOPLE

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CANDACE BUSHNELL is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of Sex and the City, Lipstick Jungle, The Carrie Diaries, One Fifth Avenue, Trading Up, Four Blondes, Summer and the City and Killing Monica. Sex and the City, published in 1996, was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Lipstick Jungle became a popular television series on NBC, as did The Carrie Diaries on the CW.

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