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Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Lauren Weisberger
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Rating:  110 reviews
Sales Rank: 522
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0743290119
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780743290111
ASIN: 0743290119
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. She was this close to the ring and the baby she's wanted her whole life when her boyfriend left her for his twenty-three-year-old personal trainer -- whose fees are paid by Emmy. With her plans for the perfect white wedding in the trash, Emmy is now ordering takeout for one. Her friends insist an around-the-world sex-fueled adventure will solve all her problems -- could they be right? Leigh, a young star in the publishing business, is within striking distance of landing her dream job as senior editor and marrying her dream guy. And to top it all off, she has just purchased her dream apartment. Only when Leigh begins to edit the enfant terrible of the literary world, the brilliant and brooding Jesse Chapman, does she start to notice some cracks in her perfect life... Adriana is the drop-dead-gorgeous daughter of a famous supermodel. She possesses the kind of feminine wiles made only in Brazil, and she never hesitates to use them. But she's about to turn thirty and -- as her mother keeps reminding her -- she won't have her pick of the men forever. Everyone knows beauty is ephemeral and there's always someone younger and prettier right around the corner. Suddenly she's wondering...does Mother know best? These three very different girls have been best friends for a decade in the greatest city on earth. As they near thirty, they're looking toward their future...but despite all they've earned -- first-class travel, career promotions, invites to all the right parties, and luxuries small and large -- they're not quite sure they like what they see... One Saturday night at the Waverly Inn, Adriana and Emmy make a pact: within a single year, each will drastically change her life. Leigh watches from the sidelines, not making any promises, but she'll soon discover she has the most to lose. Their friendship is forever, but everything else is on the table. Three best friends. Two resolutions. One year to pull it off.
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 Smart Chick Lit May 29, 2008
JG
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
I actually really enjoyed this book. I think of it as chick lit with a brain, and it kept me reading and laughing, which is all I really care about. I like this one is better than her second book because the characters are more complicated--and there's Otis. If you only read the book for Otis and his makeover....
The perfect summer chick lit July 17, 2008
Bookreporter.com (New York, New York)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ah, summer. Give me the hot sun, some form of water nearby (lucky me, I'm a mile from the ocean), my trusty sand chair and a stack of good beach books. Nothing says summer or beach book to me like a good chick-lit novel --- and thanks to Lauren Weisberger, author of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, one is here. CHASING HARRY WINSTON is one of those warm weather reads good enough to take you out of yourself for a while and into the fabulous lives of pretty, young, up-and-coming Manhattanites.
Meet Emmy, Leigh and Adriana, three fast friends from college now approaching their 30th (gasp!) birthdays and living what to most eyes would be downright awesome lives, but to them are just not satisfying. Leigh is practically engaged to the "perfect man" --- a sports anchor on a pseudo-ESPN who lives in a way modern loft featured in a style magazine and who likes to cuddle. The guy is perfect! But is he perfect for her? She has her doubts but easily puts them on the back burner so she can continue climbing the ladder in the editorial world. In the middle of the novel she skips several rungs and finds herself representing a very well-known author whose next long-awaited book has been dropped in her lap. Apparently, editing a book requires lots of time spent on a gorgeous Hamptons estate. Unfortunately, her inexperience leaves her unable to truly edit the ultra-sexy Jesse Chapman's latest, and poorly written, novel.
Emmy was dating (for years) who she thought was the perfect man for her but who dumps her in the book's first pages for a younger woman. In fact, he was a personal trainer whose services she paid for as a birthday present. Too soon, it becomes obvious that for Emmy the perfect man is going to be whoever she envisions having children with, because that's what it's all about. The day before her 30th birthday, during her annual OB/GYN exam, she even asks her doctor if she should start thinking about harvesting eggs. Luckily, the big breakup compels her to finally accept a promotion at the restaurant she works at (one of those celebrity chef chain types), and she quickly becomes a glamorous jetsetter traveling the world, checking up on other franchises, researching possible locations and scouting out new food trends on an unbelievably generous expense account.
All this traveling requires that she foist her pet parrot (technically the pet of another ex-boyfriend) onto friend #3, latino socialite Adriana. This is the friend with no job but a trust fund/expense account who lives in her parents' penthouse since they only visit once or twice a year when they aren't in London, Dubai or Rio. She is indescribably beautiful and gets everything she wants because of it --- and most of what she wants is one-night-stand sex. Adriana takes on the challenge of the parrot, Otis, whose favorite phrase is "Fattie!"
Over a night of cocktails in a very hip bar, the girls make a pact to drastically change their lives over the course of the next year. Adriana vows to have a meaningful relationship with just one man. Emma must use her new world-traveler status to begin sleeping with random men with no thought of babies. And as for Leigh, no one can think of anything for her to put on the line, so she gets a pass to sit back and watch.
As the book progresses, the reader observes each character struggle between her pact to drastically change her life and yet be true to her own self. Yes, there is random, hot sex. There are beautiful men and clothes, lessons learned and loves lost. When finished, you'll heave a big sigh, rub your finger over the three embossed diamond rings on the cover and remember where you really are. Which is on the beach (hopefully), enjoying the summer and loving the fact that you're a girl.
--- Reviewed by Jamie Layton
Great Summer Read June 11, 2008
H. Irwin (New York, NY United States)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I think some of the reviews are too critical. This is a fun book that I truly enjoyed. The pages practically turned themselves. I though the book was a great summer read...I recommended it to all my friends.
Loved it! August 18, 2008
V. Wright (Virginia)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had a hard time getting into the book at first, but once I got started I loved it. I would like to read a 10 years later book to update us how these characters lives moved on and changed.
Amazing June 3, 2008
Kristyn Keene (New York, NY)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is so entertaining, sensitive and clever--I loved it! Chasing Harry Winston has all the fun of posh, New York City life through 3 best friends' perspectives and the life-changing scenarios that accompany them. There's piece of everygirl in Lauren's characters, and I totally adored all of them.
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