SEX AND THE CITY

Equal parts soap opera, gossip page, sociological study, and dating manual, Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell’s regular New York Observer column, has attracted a cult following, propelling Bushnell to achieve her own star-status. This collection brings her pieces together for the first time, where they read as a twisted nineties society novel in serial format. A chronicle of the mating habits of our cultural elite, Sex and the City makes a stage of the various launch parties, openings, and celebrity affairs that keep New York’s high society amused. It has long since been proven that the later Candace stays out at night, the better the stories she comes home with. In addition to banging on kitchen doors for more champagne, her stunts include shedding her clothes to infiltrate a sex club, plying a roomful of men with rum and marijuana as a prelude to a discussion of menage a trois, and venturing to the most posh of all suburbs to interview married women about their sex lives (only to return to Manhattan and forget her sordid findings with the aid of several cocktails). Sex and the City is a modern-day comedy of errors, a fantastic and sometimes terrifying foray into the hearts and minds of city dwellers. Traveling in packs from parties to bars to clubs, Bushnell’s characters carry on the never-ending search for the perfect marriage partner, the most coveted piece of gossip, and, when the night is done, someone to go home with.

《慾望城市》將紐約文化精英的尋偶習慣編成紀錄，製造了一個各式遊艇派對、開幕式、名人韻事等的舞台，讓紐約的上流社會歡樂不斷。這本詼諧的著作介紹了「玩模特兒的男人」，惡名昭彰的「單車男孩」和困擾著我們社會的「有毒單身漢」，也對九○年代浪漫韻事做了內幕的描述；如內心不安的作家「凱莉」；百萬企業家「大人物」；四十出頭的電影製作人「珊曼莎瓊斯」；以及各色俱備的年輕小伙子們；如鬱卒的劇作家「史丹福布雷契」和「著名的內衣男模特兒」；「史奇普姜生」和拒絕他的女人們。

《慾望城市》是現代滑稽錯誤的連續，是對都市人心智作奇特且時而可怕的探知。書中的人物成群結隊的遊走於派對、酒吧和俱樂部之間，繼續永不停歇的尋找著完美的結婚伴侶，尋找著最想要的八卦消息，也尋找著當夜已逝時能一起回家的人。