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Críticas

'Inventive and entertaining' Independent on Sunday

'The literary equivalent of the sexual tease' Marie Claire

'As smart as you'd expect from the title, but also sometimes touching' Time Out

'Stylishly sexy and taking sensuously serpentine twists and turns that keep you guessing and laughing out loud...his witty stories are as cool and seductive as a well-chilled glass of vintage champagne' Glasgow Herald

'It is hard not to be touched by the imagination at work in these stories' Metro

'Stylish...witty and original' Mail on Sunday

'Wonderful...a wry, witty take on the emotional lives of single and not-so-single Manhattanites. Where SEX AND THE CITY is one track, KISSING IN MANHATTAN is as varied as the freaks, poseurs and nerds who inhabit the world's most famous island. David Schickler...never fails to spot the secrets and silences of modern urban relationships. Popular writing at its elegant best' Eve

'A collection of modern fairy tales with a distinctive, ironic twist' Red

'Stylish, witty and deviant...a twisted fairytale of New York. Full of sly surprises, it's a wicked dip into an exotic world' Daily Express

'Schickler has a knack for injecting the everyday with a dose of the extraordinary...Schickler's pared-down prose is slick, his narrative a well-tailored treat' Literary Review

Reseña del editor

The book of 2001 is Kissing in Manhattan: a twisted series of intertwining New York fairytales by an outstandingly original, funny and talented new writer. It features the Pre-emption, a fantastically grand and old-fashioned apartment building in New York, and some extraordinary recurring characters: Patrick, the charismatic and satanic millionaire with a penchant for nude restraint; Rally, the travel writer lying tied up in Patrick's bedroom during an Breakfast at Tiffany's-style party; Jacob and Rachel, whose secret nightly bath is suddenly headline news; Hannah, the nymphomaniac perfume heiress; and Douglas, the teacher who is invited to dinner by his star pupil's parents, and propositioned.

With its extraordinary combination of old-world glamour and new world deviance, Kissing in Manhattan is a breathtaking and unimaginably stylish debut.