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Downtown Press, April 2006
Trade Paperback, 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0743265033
ISBN-13: 9780743265034
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IN HOLLYWOOD, THEY LIKE TO LOVE 'EM AND LEAVE 'EM.
The Starter Wife
A scathingly funny novel from the bestselling author of Maneater.
When her husband, Kenny, dumps her by cell phone (!) mere months before their ten-year wedding anniversary, Gracie Pollock is dazed and confused. Though life as the wife of a semi-famous Hollywood studio executive often left her yawning, Gracie always believed she and Kenny were different from other Hollywood couples. She never thought she'd be a starter wife.
But Kenny has upgraded, and with images of his new pop tartlet girlfriend everywhere Gracie turns, she seeks refuge at her best friend's Malibu mansion. Then a mysterious hunk saves her from drowning and suddenly drowning in her sorrows seems like a waste of time. And when she takes up with Kenny's boss, one of Hollywood's better-known Lotharios, she discovers that maybe life after divorce -- Hollywood-style -- isn't so bad after all!
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"Fearless and fabulous. Only an insider like Gigi Grazer could have so much wicked fun with the intricacies of Hollywood's power couples."
-- Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada
-- Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada
"In The Starter Wife, with delirious aplomb, nerves of Sub-Zero steel, and a mordant case of the giggles, Gigi Levangie Grazer covers a very expensive waterfront: that gated colony inhabited by the great EWs: Entertainment Weekly, Edith Wharton, and Evelyn Waugh."
-- Bruce Wagner, author of The Chrysanthemum Palace
-- Bruce Wagner, author of The Chrysanthemum Palace
"Acidic and unforgiving, Gigi Levangie Grazer's hilariously accurate skewering of the mores -- and the morons -- of Hollywood left a deliciously vile taste in my mouth, and I loved it!"
-- Simon Doonan, columnist for The New York Observer and author of Nasty
-- Simon Doonan, columnist for The New York Observer and author of Nasty
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