Sex and the City (novel)

Infobox Book
name = Sex and the City
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image_caption = United States 1st edition cover
author = Candace Bushnell
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Anthology/Chick Lit
publisher = Warner Books
release_date = August 1 1997
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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isbn = ISBN 0-446-61768-7
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followed_by = Sex and the City (sequel)

"Sex and the City" is a collection of essays by Candace Bushnell based on her and her friends' lifestyles.fact|date=July 2007 It was first published in 1997, and re-published in 2001, 2006, and in 2008 as 10th anniversary movie tie-in edition.

The book is an anthology of columns that Bushnell began writing in 1994 for "The New York Observer". The book was loosely adapted into a long-running HBO television series also called "Sex and the City" (1998-2004), which itself spawned a 2008 .

Differences from the series

Though the novel, like the series, is told from the point of view of columnist Carrie Bradshaw, her adventures include more and varied friends than the three primaries featured in the series. Some situations and personalities were adapted for the show, but the characters who bear the names Charlotte York, Miranda Hobbs and Samantha Jones are minor and contrast their television counterparts.

Charlotte is a sex-crazed British girl in the book; in the series she is a naïve, sometimes prudish American WASP. Miranda is a cable executive in the book, but a lawyer in the series. Samantha is a movie producer in the book, but a publicist in the television series.

External links

* [http://www.observer.com/2007/sex-and-city Archive of the original "Sex and the City" newspaper columns]