The Millennium Girl: 15th Anniversary Edition: 15th Anniversary Edition - Tapa blanda

The AUTHOR'S CUT: WITH 150 PAGES OF SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL--author interviews, the original "Goldiggers" article commissioned by Esquire, cover tries, press items, and feature reviews, done in scrapbook format ... On the front and back covers: Alessandra Ambrosio photographed by Raphael Mazzucco.“How to Catch a Man at the Century’s End: A face-to-face with ‘diggers,’ women who troll resorts in search of millionaires. We know that women like this exist, but until now we didn’t have all the gory details. Bo is charming and the book is hilarious and sympathetic.”— The New York Times Book Review“The Millennium Girl skillfully takes us through the marriage market of the new millennium. Felske is the real thing: He knows his territory, and he writes about it with wit and style.”— Vogue“The resourceful Felske’s latest topic is gold diggers, the sweet lovelies more shark-like than Anita Loos’s or Truman Capote’s and the author laces every page with a masterful cynicism.”— Kirkus Reviews“Based on a magazine article Felske wrote about young women hustling in Aspen, The Millennium Girl, is snappy fun, a box of candy wrapped up with a black latex bow.”— Booklist“A strong follow-up to his previous, Word, Felske uses his trademark insight and detail to peer into the lives of sassy, sad women and their encounters with the richest. A complete hoot, sexy, hard to put down, it’s 100 percent fun, and recommended for all fiction collections.”— Library Journal“In The Millennium Girl, pulse-of-the-Zeitgeist author Coerte Felske sets his sights on ‘Diggers,’ the globe-trotting hotties on the hunt for ‘Walletmen,’ the ultra-rich men of their dreams.”— Detour“Who are these lit It Girls?The Millennium Girl. ‘I’m not a hooker but I do live off men,’ says Bodicea. I wanted to hate her, but she was too shameless and too hilariously over-the-top.”— Mademoiselle“Felske’s cleverly describes the art of the gold-digger and the folly of their prey. Bo invents cute nicknames for the Diggers and acidic jibes at upper-class hypocrisy, good for chuckles.”— Publishers Weekly “Great fun and more than a racy rehash of Pretty Woman, Felske covered the ‘digger’ scene in an article for Esquire and clearly knows the turf. Female empowerment, a having-it-all ending, a pampered husband-hunter, and a flaming gay sidekick perpetuate these pages.”— Entertainment Weekly“Breakfast at Tiffany’s for the year 2000. A totally titillating read.”— Woman’s Own“Bodicea is possessed of a wry sense of humor and eye for detail and she sympathetically picks apart her own insecurities and those of fellow Diggers. Once again, Felske expertly maps the morally dubious interiors of characters who live on a razor’s edge of scruples.”— The Southampton Press

Coerte V.W. Felske was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island. He attended Bronxville High School and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College. He did his graduate work in film directing and screenwriting at Columbia University. The Shallow Man, originally published in 1995, was his first novel. His second novel, Word, came out in 1998 followed by The Millennium Girl in 2000. In 2008, the author established his independent literary imprint The Dolce Vita Press founded in conjunction with Amazon to publish and distribute his books. The imprint’s inaugural publication was The Shallow Man:15th Anniversary Edition released in September, 2009 followed by Scandalocity in May, 2010. In August, 2012 special anniversary editions of the acclaimed Word and The Millennium Girl were released along with the publication of Felske’s newest original novel, The Ivory Stretch, in January, 2013. The author launched The DVP to have significant contact with readership and to exercise creative control over his work from the editing to the covers, utilizing the top artists of the day. The DVP label derives from the Italian “dolce vita,” which translates to the “sweet life.” Felske was influenced by Federico Fellini’s masterwork, La Dolce Vita, a cinematic tale of a decadent group of glamorous partiers, nightclubbers, and exotic women as they navigate through Rome’s high society pursued by a playboy paparazzo. The author has referred to his early literature as “dolce vita fiction,” stories about nightclub impresarios, serial womanizers, fashionistas, fortune hunting women, entertainment business hopefuls, and scandal scribes entrenched in a similar dolce vita circuitry; i.e., characters living modern versions of that illusory ‘sweet life’ depicted in Fellini’s film. In addition to the The Ivory Stretch, the author has two more completed works coming soon. Felske’s Chemical/Animal, his take on marriage in the 21st century and his 2nd written in first person as a woman, will be released in late 2013; A Touch of Noir will be released in 2014, a 1940s Hollywood detective mystery-thriller. All Felske titles for The DVP are available at the author’s Web site coertefelske.com, thedolcevitapress.com, Amazon.com, BN.com, independent bookstores and e-book distributors worldwide. To request a review or signed copy, write to the publisher, or for news, updates and an in-depth biography visit the author’s Web site at coertefelske.com.