Is There Still Sex in the City? Paperback – August 18, 2020 by Candace Bushnell

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Author: Bushnell Candace

Brand: Grove Press

Package Dimensions: 24x210x220

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 18-08-2020

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Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty.
Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? follows a cohort of female friends―Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn, and Candace―as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. There’s “Cubbing,” in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the “Mona Lisa” Treatment―a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle aged women, and what it’s really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcee. From the high highs (My New Boyfriend or MNBs) to the low lows (Middle Age Madness, or MAM cycles), Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today’s relationship landscape and the types that roam it. Drawing from her own experience, in Is There Still Sex in the City? Bushnell spins a smart, lively satirical story of love and life from all angles―marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all. This is an indispensable companion to one of the most revolutionary dating books of the twentieth century from one of our most important social commentators.
Review
Praise for IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY?
A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER for US WEEKLY, ELLE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEWSDAY, and POPSUGAR
“Perhaps no one has better excavated our kinky underpinnings than Candace  Bushnell author of the original ‘Sex and the City’ columns and progenitor of the show that made Manolo a household name. Fifteen years after Carrie Bradshaw sighed her last  ‘I couldn’t help but wonder,’ Bushnell is back with Is There Still Sex  in the City?. The protagonist, Candace, is a recently divorced writer who trades her Manhattan  life for a cottage in the Hamptons…[the book is] brimming with the snappy rhetorical questions and taxonomic acronyms that became Bushnell’s signature back in the stiletto days… While Carrie was a bright-eyed anthropologist, Candace and her friends are survivalists; even beyond the City, it’s a jungle out there.”—LAUREN MECHLING, VOGUE
“What comes after cosmos and toxic bachelors? Fueled by chilled rosé, Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell is masterfully decoding a new era of single life.”—USA TODAY
“From Cosmos to rose, her current beverage of choice, Bushnell may drink pink. But she knows how to write dark.”—ASSOCIATED PRESS
“The book captures the buoyancy of the writer’s brand, but it also has a…mellow quality… As with the show, there’s a lot to relish. Bushnell’s portrayals of the women in her circle somehow feel both forgiving and clinical, with an anthropologist’s matter-of-factness…Bushnell wrestles smartly with the theme of aging, with how being a “fiftysomething” woman is different from being a “thirtysomething” woman….this Bushnell writes most gracefully about topics that are not sex and dating…This Bushnell has softer edges than the erstwhile Observer columnist… The city is big, Bushnell implies, but not endless. The sex never left it. But was sex ever really the point?”—Katy Waldman, NEW YORKER
“As she did in her bestselling Sex in the City, Bushnell examines her own and her friends’ experiences with dry wit, delivering sharp social observations about the trials and piquant pleasures of looking for love at a certain age.”—PEOPLE
“While [Bushnell]  doesn’t bring back Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte or Samantha, it feels a bit like we’re at brunch with middle-aged versions of those archetypes, and they’re still talking about love and sex because, well, of course. The book, part memoir, part fiction, is a guide to the Ides of