Altar Ego - Hardcover

Lette, Kathy

3.21

484 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688171451 ISBN 13: 9780688171452

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1999

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Thirtysomething Becky Steele, her crowd's wildest party girl, has decided to settle down with the perfect guy, until she thinks about missing out on good times and starts seeing an embarrassingly young rock star. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

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Altar Ego

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To those lucky enough to have read her, it will come as no surprise that Kathy Lette's new book is outrageous, savage, and quite hilarious. In such irreverent books as Foetal Attraction, Lette has redefined both the sex war and survival tactics for women in terms that are entirely her own. Her heroine this time is Becky Steele (Is it an accident that the name so resembles the spiky heroine of Thackeray's Vanity Fair?), who is wondering about how serious a breach of etiquette it is to run out on one's own wedding. Clinging to the window ledge of her parents' bathroom, she finds herself wondering whether her intended, Julian, a human rights lawyer, is suitable for a women who shouldn't really be married. Of course, Becky's problem is the same as the hero of many a male novel--has she encountered enough sexual variety? There is, for instance, the rock star toyboy Zack, a man whose libido is almost as out of control as Becky's. And before she arrives at her reluctant decision, there is an equal ratio of hard decisions and a considerable testing of bedsprings, all of which is the perfect justification for Lette's mordant wit and coruscating one-liners. --Barry Forshaw

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