Veronica Webb Sight: Adventures in the Big City [Hardcover]

Veronica Webb (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1998

Intelligent and outspoken columnist and supermodel Veronica Webb presents edgy essays on today's hot-button topics. With writing and attitude that speaks to the "Gen X" market and beyond, Veronica addresses a full gamut of subjects, from gansta rap to Mike Tyson, from AIDS and sexuality to family, friendships, and work. Photos Print ads. National author publicity .

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Webb, supermodel and all-around celebrity, is not just another familiar pretty face seeking to capitalize on her beauty, but rather she has a voice to be heard and a message to give. Her essays have appeared in many mainstream publications, and she is a highly sought after journalist. This is her first collection of essays, and her appeal to the young urban set as a voice of reason and understanding is distinctive. She groups her thoughts into seven chapters: "Women," "Fashion," "Politics," "Family," "Love," "Popular Culture," and "Odds & Ends." Her perspective is both enlightening and provocative. This "Web site" is sure to have many readers. Lillian Lewis

From Kirkus Reviews

Supermodel-cum-columnist, actress (in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever and Malcolm X), and TV correspondent (on Good Morning America and HBO's Entertainment News) Webb's first collection of maladroit essays will thrill Seventeen subscribers, but few others. Webb offers a tell-all memoir tracing her journey from New York club kid to Paris ingenue, posing for the likes of Bruce Weber and Peter Lindberg in duds by Jean-Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Calvin Klein, et al. A swanky Miss Malaprop (who occasionally gets it right), Webb peppers her otherwise puerile worldview with big words like ``exacerbate'' and ``ingratiate.'' When it comes to the city of light, the most she can say is that ``France is like another planet.'' Her guilty decision to abort an unwanted child goes like this: ``I know it's not falafel and then a baby. It's a baby, and I'm sorry.'' On insecurity: ``It tends to bring out the worst in people.'' Clearly, a fancy vocabulary does not a thinker or a writer make. After escapades as an A-list model in Milan, London, Norway, Morocco, etc., and a stint as Spike Lee's girlfriend, she became the first black woman to land an exclusive contract with Revlon. When the contract was terminated after three years, she turned to broadcast journalism, and, finally, to the writing life. As feminist scribe, railing against breast cancer, the straitjackets of gender and sexuality, the beauty myth, and the word ``bitch'' as a form of address, she is hopelessly inadequate. On race (the ``N'' word, Clarence Thomas, Mike Tyson), crime, and other political matters, she is equally superfluous. She is better suited to show inventories, paeans to couture decadence, and the therapeutics of shopping at Barneys. In most of these essays, like Shakespeare's ``little wanton boys that swim on bladders,'' Webb seems beyond her depth. (b&w photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 282 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion Books; 1st edition (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786863382
• ISBN-13: 978-0786863389
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,227,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK WAS POORLEY WRITTEN, May 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Veronica Webb Sight: Adventures in the Big City (Hardcover)

Who told this women she could write!! I had a hard time following her story in some chapters. She seemed to space out at times and go on and on. Her next book she be an apology for the first.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars She definitely needs to go to a School of Journalism., August 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Veronica Webb Sight: Adventures in the Big City (Hardcover)

I am a very big fan of Veronica Webb's; however after reading her book I realized that this is not her forte'. The book was so basic. The wording was just like DUH! DUH! DUH!. This is definitely not the work of a journalist (she needs to stop referring to herself as one)this is truly amateur work to say the least.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Library Binding for a juvenile effort, March 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Veronica Webb Sight: Adventures in the Big City (Hardcover)

Yeah, the cover on this book is good. It's a sturd y hardcover the size of a paperback. I'm sure the publisher printed it that way so the book wouldn't fall apart when it's thrown across the room. i wouldn't recommend this for my dog to chew on.