The Perfect Manhattan

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It's all the rage. The New York Times has dubbed it a massive new publishing trend. It is "Gossip Lit": a genre of novels that offer inquiring minds a tantalizing peek at the rich and powerful behaving badly. In this juicy, irresistible tradition, Broadway Books of Random House proudly presents the ultimate summer cocktail with a fresh new recipe: The Perfect Manhattan.

Cassie is a young college graduate with the world on a string, a yen for screenwriting-and a staggering pile of student loans weighing her down. In lieu of the lucrative snooze-fest of a reliable consulting job, she shocks everyone she knows by opting for a sexier, more flexible job: mixing drinks. Never mind that she doesn't know single-malt whiskey from Jack Daniels, she's eager to learn. And under the tutelage of a sexy SoHo bar owner, she's soon cranking out three-olive martinis with the city's glitterati thirty-deep at the bar.

When she accepts a summer gig bartending in the Hamptons, Cassie finds herself catapulted into a whirlwind of dazzling celebrity and over-the-top wealth unlike anything she's ever seen. Surrounded by playboys, moguls, spoiled kids and Paris Hilton clones in strappy stilettos, she soon wonders if playing the ersatz socialite-while trying to actually make a living-is more than she bargained for.

Authors Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey bartend at hot spots Onieal's in SoHo and the Star Room in the Hamptons, rubbing elbows with the likes of Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, Gwyneth Paltrow and the Hilton sisters. Their uncanny ability to blend blistering social satire-shaken, not stirred-with a healthy dose of romance, comedy and scandal, results in a fast-paced, enormously entertaining look at life on the chi-chi side of the tracks.

Need to catch up on some fun reading? The Perfect Manhattan that will help you extend that perfect Hamptons summer and you can win one of six autographed copies from Hamptonsview.com just by being a member and signing up for the Hamptons Weekly Brief. We'll post the winners here next week.

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And the winners chosen September 15, 2005 are:
Mary Beth G. of Reading, PA
Kathy H. of Westhampton Beach, NY
Amanda K. of East Quogue, NY
Gary B. of Hampton Bays, NY
Judi L. of Weston, FL
Sarah J. of Los Angeles, CA