Product Description
In The Right Address, Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman seared through the upper crust of New Yorkâs glitterati with wicked glee. In their delicious new novel, Wolves in Chic Clothing, they train their merciless spotlight on the young princes and princesses poised to inherit Park Avenue.
Julia, a hip, downtown salesgirl at Pelhamâs jewelry store, finds her social life turned on its head when she is asked to deliver a necklace to the storeâs young heiress, Lell Pelham, on Lellâs wedding day. Beguiled by Juliaâs earnest cluelessness and her vintage-chic vibe, Lell and her gang adopt Julia, and âEliza Doolittleâ her into passing as the heiress to a family fortune, just for a laugh. Dazed by the whirlwind of trust funds, pedigrees, Cosmopolitans, and penthouses in her new world, Julia is unprepared for the ardent advances of Lellâs husbandâor the vicious claws her new âfriendsâ develop when they decide Julia is an ingrate, and demote her from society goddess to penniless cling-on with one well-timed editorial. Suddenly, she must return the borrowed couture clothes and try to remember who she was before the body snatching took place. Hilarious and completely addictive, Wolves in Chic Clothing is a modern-day rags-to-riches-and-back-again fairy tale that will leave fans stamping their Manolo Blahniks for more.
Product Details
| Publisher | Broadway |
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| Author | Carrie Karasyov,Jill Kargman |
| Label | Broadway |
| Dewey Decimal Number | 813.6 |
| Studio | Broadway |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Title | Wolves in Chic Clothing: A Novel |
| Release Date | 2005-04-05 |
| Publication Date | 2005-04-05 |
| Manufacturer | Broadway |
Customer Reviews
BadReview by JR, 2010-08-12
This writer is terrible, 30 preview sample pages is all I need before wasting my money. Her sentences are jumbled and all over the place which makes for a terrible uneven flow. She describes 5 or more characters in 3 pages which has me so confused as who is who..I even tried 'The Right Address' and felt the same inexperienced nonsense and hoopla. And describing things just goes on and on, I found myself skipping pages just just to get it overwith. Her books are boring and pointless.
Loved it
Review by catfishmama, 2009-10-26
Loved this book. Great weekend read, but I wish it could of been longer. From the first page, I was lost in the world of New York High end fashion. Hated to come back to reality.
Make it go away...!
Review by Surly.Girly, 2009-10-25
Where to begin? The mind boggles. Well, its target audience cannot be older than 15, for starters.
Then we can move on to eye-rollers such as: the horribly cliched phraseology ("Gag!" says the heroine after her employer's husband makes a pass,); the one dimensional stereotypes that populate its pages (catty male makeup artist, rich philandering dad, star-struck gay pal, jealously malicious best friend - now I have the urge to say "gag" myself...); the gratuitous obscenities that punctuate the characters' sentences to an excessive degree; and the tiresome name-dropping of "hip" restaurants, drinks, hotels, shoes, baby carriages, yadda-yadda - apparently calculated to make the book seem like a coveted window on the world of privilege for all us yobs out here with our noses pressed again the glass.
The only thing that made the book even worse was to hear its audio version, narrated by Susan Denaker. Her vocal characterizations were not only grating and stereotypical, but they kept sliding into Paul Lynde Land ... where so many of Denaker's myriad characters tend to dwell. Those that didn't flucuated between Ms. Denaker's misplaced and anachronistic impressions of Valley Girls and swishing queens. In the first fifteen minutes, I flinched and protested aloud so often that I switched off my iPod and never returned.
As Delicious As A Banana Split Oozing w/ Hot Fudge, Carmel & Butterscotch!
Review by The Book Resort, 2009-09-24
Wolves in Chic Clothing is as delicious as a banana split oozing w/ hot fudge, caramel & butterscotch!
Forget Chick Lit, I'm talking juicy Gossip Lit. Yum! Dig in!
Set against the glittering backdrop of New York City, Karasyov & Kargman co-author a tale dripping w/ wicked goodness.
Welcome to the lush, decadent society sphere that few live but many dream of making it their own.
Ahhh, the glitz & glamour of the beautiful people, wrapped in ravishing clothes, dining @ extravagant restaurants, shopping @ posh boutiques & living the moneyed life. *Sigh*.
Wolves in Chic Clothing's irresistible Julia goes from ingénue to trendsetting sweetheart unexpectedly.
Genteel Lell Pelham, heiress of Pelham's, leader of the highbred hyenas is about to stroll down the aisle.
Psst! WHATEVER YOU DO, PLEASE, DO NOT PICTURE PARIS HILTON!
Yes, polished Lell has landed the "perfect chap" in Willoughby Banks, a man w/wandering eyeballs, a passion for Lell's assets & the determination to ingratiate himself into the blue blood realm.
The rest of the players have interesting stories that Karasyov & Kargman showcase smoothly.
Subsequently, Julia realizes that the opulent life of the Big Apple's blooming aristocracy isn't as amazing as it appears.
Karasyov & Kargman do such an outstanding job w/ narration, you will find yourself not only yearning to live the life of the well-heeled but living it as you turn each scrumptious page!
characters gave me whiplash
Review by ., 2009-09-08
Cute story; fun read. But ... the characters changed their personalities so much in mid-stream, I had to stop and think ... what happened??? Sweet Hope is so in love with her husband ... then, bam! just like that ... she's contemplating an affair ... huh?
Anyway, buy it at a thrift store if you must ...
