Meet teenage Carrie Bradshaw as she hits the bright lights, big city of New York for the very first time! Find out how Carrie transforms from country girl to super-cool fashionista in the second explosive CARRIE DIARIES novel from the globally bestselling author of SEX AND THE CITY. Summer is a magical time in New York City and Carrie is in love with all of it - the crazy characters in her neighbourhood, the vintage-clothing boutiques, the wild parties and the glamorous man who has swept her off her feet. Best of all, she's finally in a real writing class, taking her first steps toward fulfilling her dream. This sequel to THE CARRIE DIARIES brings surprising revelations as Carrie learns to navigate her way around the Big Apple, going from being a country "sparrow" - as Samantha Jones dubs her - to the person she always wanted to be. But as it becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile her past with her future, Carrie realises that making it in New York is much more complicated than she ever imagined. With her signature wit and sparkling humour, Candace Bushnell reveals the irresistible story of how Carrie met Samantha and Miranda, and what turned a small-town girl into one of the New York City's most unforgettable icons, Carrie Bradshaw.
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Summer is a magical time in New York City and Carrie is in love with all of it—the crazy characters in her neighborhood, the vintage-clothing boutiques, the wild parties, and the glamorous man who has swept her off her feet. Best of all, she's finally in a real writing class, taking her first steps toward fulfilling her dream.
Carrie Bradshaw's 1980s Playlist
Summer is a magical time in New York City and Carrie is in love with all of it—the crazy characters in her neighborhood, the vintage-clothing boutiques, the wild parties, and the glamorous man who has swept her off her feet. Best of all, she's finally in a real writing class, taking her first steps toward fulfilling her dream.
This sequel to The Carrie Diaries brings surprising revelations as Carrie learns to navigate her way around the Big Apple, going from being a country "sparrow"—as Samantha Jones dubs her—to the person she always wanted to be. But as it becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile her past with her future, Carrie realizes that making it in New York is much more complicated than she ever imagined.
With her signature wit and sparkling humor, Candace Bushnell reveals the irresistible story of how Carrie met Samantha and Miranda, and what turned a small-town girl into one of New York City's most unforgettable icons, Carrie Bradshaw.
Carrie Bradshaw's 1980s Playlist
In honor of the publication of Summer and the City, author Candace Bushnell shares the tunes that Carrie skipped around town to in this exclusive playlist.
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| Carrie Bradshaw’s Guide to the Real New York City. | The Rules according to Miranda Hobbs. | Samantha Jones’s Top Ten Tips for City Girls. |
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“If ever a book resounded with positive messages for young people, it’s this one.” (USA Today )
“Fans of the franchise will want to learn more of Carrie’s coming-of-age experiences and will appreciate the sly wit that sometimes shines through-repartee at parties is occasionally priceless; others might enjoy imagining themselves in Carrie’s freewheeling demi-adult world. ” (Kirkus Reviews )
“The 1980s Manhattan setting is vividly realized, while Carrie’s friendships, doubts, joys, and truisms are relatable and revealing for teens and recognizable for adults. Both audiences will flock to this installment, like Carrie to Chanel.” (ALA Booklist )
“While this book clearly has a built-in audience of adult readers and older teens who are fans of the show and Bushnell’s adult books, there’s also something here for anyone who has ever wished to build a fabulous new life and, especially, for aspiring writers.” (School Library Journal )
“‘Summer and the City’ is Grade-A chick lit from one of its masters.” (Los Angeles Times )
“An enjoyable romp of a read.” (Entertainment Weekly )
Praise for THE CARRIE DIARIES: “Carrie’s sharp observations of her peers and human relationships give the book smart, sassy intellectual power.” (Kirkus Reviews )
Praise for THE CARRIE DIARIES: “With wit and insight, Carrie chronicles her emotionally charged senior year at a small Connecticut high school.” (Publishers Weekly )
Praise for THE CARRIE DIARIES: “An addictive, ingenious origin story.” (Los Angeles Times )
Praise for THE CARRIE DIARIES: “Fans will love this.” (Booklist )
“Fans of the franchise will want to learn more of Carrie’s coming-of-age experiences and will appreciate the sly wit that sometimes shines through-repartee at parties is occasionally priceless; others might enjoy imagining themselves in Carrie’s freewheeling demi-adult world. ” (Kirkus Reviews )
“The 1980s Manhattan setting is vividly realized, while Carrie’s friendships, doubts, joys, and truisms are relatable and revealing for teens and recognizable for adults. Both audiences will flock to this installment, like Carrie to Chanel.” (ALA Booklist )
“While this book clearly has a built-in audience of adult readers and older teens who are fans of the show and Bushnell’s adult books, there’s also something here for anyone who has ever wished to build a fabulous new life and, especially, for aspiring writers.” (School Library Journal )
“‘Summer and the City’ is Grade-A chick lit from one of its masters.” (Los Angeles Times )
“An enjoyable romp of a read.” (Entertainment Weekly )
Praise for THE CARRIE DIARIES: “Carrie’s sharp observations of her peers and human relationships give the book smart, sassy intellectual power.” (Kirkus Reviews )
Praise for THE CARRIE DIARIES: “With wit and insight, Carrie chronicles her emotionally charged senior year at a small Connecticut high school.” (Publishers Weekly )
Praise for THE CARRIE DIARIES: “An addictive, ingenious origin story.” (Los Angeles Times )
Praise for THE CARRIE DIARIES: “Fans will love this.” (Booklist )
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Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed, international best-selling novelist whose first book, Sex and the City, published in 1996, was the basis for the HBO hit series. Bushnell captured the country's attention with Sex and the City by breaking down the bedroom doors of New York City's rich and beautiful to expose true contemporary stories of sex, love and relationships. The book introduced the nation to "modelizers," "toxic bachelors" and the women who are looking for Mr. Big as they glide in and out of a star-studded social scene. With Four Blondes (2000), Bushnell gave readers another uncensored look into the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite. In each of this book's four linked novellas, Bushnell uses wry humor and frank portrayals of love and lust to deliver clever, hilarious and socially relevant portraits of women in New York City. Four Blondes was a critical and commercial hit. And the successes of Sex and the City and Four Blondes created high demand for a new genre of fiction; the chick-lit phenomenon had begun. Bushnell's third novel, Trading Up (2003) is a wickedly funny social satire about a lingerie model whose reach exceeds her grasp and whose new-found celebrity has gone to her head. The book takes place in the months leading up to 9/11, and portrays an era of wearily decadent society in New York. A sharply observant, keenly funny comedy of manners Trading Up is Bushnell at her most sassy and entertaining; this novel caused the The New York Times to call Bushnell "the philosopher queen of a social scene." A movie of Trading Up is currently in production at Lifetime Television. In Lipstick Jungle (2005), her fourth novel, Bushnell explores assumptions about gender roles in family and career. The book follows three high-powered friends as they weather the ups and downs of lives lived at the top of their game. Salon called Bushnell's work "ahead of the curve" Once again, with Lipstick Jungle, Bushnell captured the paradigm of a new breed of career woman facing modern challenges and choices. Lipstick Jungle became the basis for the popular drama on NBC, currently in its second season, and starring Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, Lindsay Price and Andrew McCarthy. Bushnell serves as an executive producer on the show. Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, is a modern-day story of old and new money, the always combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York's Gilded Age and that F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Bushnell's New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful-at least to the public eye. "Here are bloggers and bullies, misfits and misanthropes, dear hearts and black hearts, dogfights and catty squalls spun into a darkly humorous chick-lit saga," says Publisher's Weekly. Through her books and television series, Bushnell's work has influenced and defined two generations of women. She is the winner of the 2006 Matrix Award for books (other winners include Joan Didion and Amy Tan), and a recipient of the Albert Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award. Bushnell grew up in Connecticut and attended Rice University and New York University. She currently resides in Manhattan.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
*4.5*
After the scandalous and juicy The Carrie Diaries, I was eager to re-enter Carrie's life as she made her way in New York. Therefore, when Summer and the City appeared in my mailbox, I was excited beyond words. Thankfully, Summer and the City was even better than The Carrie Diaries.
Summer and the City begins just a day after The Carrie Diaries ended. Even though Carrie's welcome into the city was everything but warm, she's excited to start her summer there in style, and as it begins, everything is simply fantastic. She's meeting real, live writers she can't help but admire and love; she's making the friends she always wished she had; and she's accomplshing great progress in her writing class. Better yet, this summer has also turned out to be one full of possible romance. Carrie is quite possibly having the time of her life. However, after a visit from a past friend and reunion with her family, she's beginning to wonder if she can ever go back to being plain old, prior- New York City Carrie. Faced with plenty of questions, Carrie wonders if she will ever figure them all out. More importantly, when given the chance to stay in New York, will she leave or go? Only more time and pages can tell!
In this addition, Carrie truly steps up her game, becoming not only an empowering and headstrong young woman, but someone I also could not help but relate to and root for as she makes her dreams come true. What I love most about her character, though, is that she is real. She has the same worries and questions about life and love and friendship just like any person has, and more importantly, she accumulates her own fair share of problems as this novel continues.... Read more ›
After the scandalous and juicy The Carrie Diaries, I was eager to re-enter Carrie's life as she made her way in New York. Therefore, when Summer and the City appeared in my mailbox, I was excited beyond words. Thankfully, Summer and the City was even better than The Carrie Diaries.
Summer and the City begins just a day after The Carrie Diaries ended. Even though Carrie's welcome into the city was everything but warm, she's excited to start her summer there in style, and as it begins, everything is simply fantastic. She's meeting real, live writers she can't help but admire and love; she's making the friends she always wished she had; and she's accomplshing great progress in her writing class. Better yet, this summer has also turned out to be one full of possible romance. Carrie is quite possibly having the time of her life. However, after a visit from a past friend and reunion with her family, she's beginning to wonder if she can ever go back to being plain old, prior- New York City Carrie. Faced with plenty of questions, Carrie wonders if she will ever figure them all out. More importantly, when given the chance to stay in New York, will she leave or go? Only more time and pages can tell!
In this addition, Carrie truly steps up her game, becoming not only an empowering and headstrong young woman, but someone I also could not help but relate to and root for as she makes her dreams come true. What I love most about her character, though, is that she is real. She has the same worries and questions about life and love and friendship just like any person has, and more importantly, she accumulates her own fair share of problems as this novel continues.... Read more ›
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By A. Parras
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I wasn't too thrilled with The Carrie DIaries so when I got this book in the mail I wasn't too sure how great it would be. However, no matter what, I would appreciate the fact that it was just another story of "the girls".
THIS BOOK IS AMAZING. For any die hard fan of SATC, this book just flowed beautifully. I couldn't put it down and finished it in 2 days. I highly recommend it...it might actually cleanse your body of the horror that was SATC 2 (the movie).
THIS BOOK IS AMAZING. For any die hard fan of SATC, this book just flowed beautifully. I couldn't put it down and finished it in 2 days. I highly recommend it...it might actually cleanse your body of the horror that was SATC 2 (the movie).
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By GlockGirl
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you are a fan of SATC you have to read this book. While I enjoyed The Carrie Diaries, I LOVED this installment so much better. It picks up from the last book, and it is where she first meets Samantha Jones and eventually Miranda Hobbes & Capote Duncan. Who also plays a big role in this book. (As most of the SATC fans already know, Capote is in the very first episode of the TV series). There are definitely quite a few surprises in this book, and it is tons of fun to see who Samantha, Miranda and Carrie were as young women (Carrie is only 18 here). The back story gives a lot of insight into why the characters we fans know and love behave the way they do and it also introduces Charlotte towards the end. This is a fresh take on Carrie & all the girls and how they became so close. I loved every word of it, and can't wait for the next book now!
Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel
Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Manologirl
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Once again we have everyone's favorite New Yorker...and it's fun learning how she got started and life before "Big". However die hard fans of the series or the movies will need to separate them from the books. The facts change. In the series Carrie says she was a teenager who lost her virginity on a ping pong table in the books she is still a virgin. Also in SATC 2 which just came out last spring (?) it starts by telling how she met each of the girls in order and how she met them...in the book the order of and HOW she meets Miranda and Samantha (to include all of their occupations at that time) are TOTALLY different. Also in the series Carries says she thinks she has issues with men because her father left when she was a kid but in the books she is raised by a loving, single father. I understand that this is a YA series but for those of us that have been with Carrie,Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte from the start it breaks the illusion.
This being said it's an ok read doesn't make you think too much and you get to spend a little more time with Carrie.You just have to let the books stand alone from anything you know from the series and movies.
This being said it's an ok read doesn't make you think too much and you get to spend a little more time with Carrie.You just have to let the books stand alone from anything you know from the series and movies.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Jan Cohn
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed learning how Carrie is developing her style, buying from consignment and thrift shops. As a fan of the TV series, I think fashion played a major role in expressing the four main characters, how they were feeling, what they were going through at the time, etc. I think it's funny what pre-law school Miranda wore before her suits. Samantha was written perfectly. I enjoyed reading how these characters evolve. One of Carrie's love interests was a bit creepy, and I didn't follow the whole literary scene, but she seemed genuinely impressionable and thrilled to be in the company of those she admired.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Wanda May
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have loved the series, tv show, movies, and now the carries diaries. This book did a very good job at transitioning between the two. Thank you Candace Bushnell!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By bgfaulkner
Format:Kindle Edition
This book was ok. I was expecting it to be a little more like the tv show. It had some interesting parts, even made me laugh some.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
I lOVE IT
i love these books def. worth the money and its so cute i cant wait to finish reading it candace bushnell is an amazing wrighter
Published 5 days ago by Richard
5.0 out of 5 stars
I <3 U...Candace Bushnell
This book is fantastic and for the first time ever i read a 400+ paged novel in 2 days. Its easy to read, stays on topic and you cant put it down.
Published 27 days ago by Jennifer Gilbert
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than expected
Let me again state this, if you go into this book comparing it to the TV show, you are going to be disappointed. Candace Bushnell's Carrie Bradshaw is not HBO's Carrie Bradshaw. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Shirley S
4.0 out of 5 stars
Loveeeeeed it!
Been a fan of Sex and the City for a long time. It's nice to get an inside 'look' at Carrie before she became 'Carrie Bradshaw'
Published 1 month ago by darlizzle22
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book!
I wanted to read the series but did not want to spend a lot. This was a great price and was in brand new shape. Quick delivery too!
Published 1 month ago by Lauren Krah
5.0 out of 5 stars
Summer and the City
I really enjoyed this next chapter in the beginning. Loved meeting Samantha and Miranda exactly how they are as they appeared in later book and tv show. Read more
Published 1 month ago by T. Tracy
5.0 out of 5 stars
In love
I was so addicted to this book- I'm just sad that it's now over and I feel lonely without my Carrie'
Published 2 months ago by Minty
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing
Amazing as always. I couldn't put it down! It transitions wonderfully, and leaves you wanting to read more.
LOVED IT.
LOVED IT.
Published 2 months ago by Alexa
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well Written Novel
Candace Bushnell is one of my favorite fiction authors, Focuses a lot on shallow teenage issues Just something to think about if you are used to Sex and the City.
Published 3 months ago by Mark
5.0 out of 5 stars
loved
this was an awesome book... I enjoyed reading it and loved knowing where the whole story starts. Read it if you love SATC
Published 3 months ago by DD
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