Playing with Boys: A Novel - Softcover

Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312332351 ISBN 13: 9780312332358

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005

Synopsis

From the author of The Dirty Girls Social Club comes another fast, funny, soulful, and sexy novel about friendship and love amid Latinas.

It's a jungle out there -- in Los Angeles, that is, where the tangle of freeways and ingrained insincerity can make a girl feel very alone, no matter how fabulous the weather or how cute the clothes at the South Coast Plaza mall. With very different styles and attitudes, Marcella, Olivia, and Alexis are trying to crack the code in L.A, trying to snare love and success. But first they have to come together―to make their marks and plan the fun they're going to have along the way.

Marcella is a hot, sharp young television actress who's barely able to enjoy the life she's bought for herself and certainly isn't enjoying her body, which is never quite perfect enough. Olivia, whose life revolves around her toddler son, Jack, is tethered to her suburban mommy track so tightly she can almost forget the horrible thing that happened to her family when she was a child herself. Alexis is a musicians' manager with a smart mouth, an ample body, and loads of style but barely enough self-esteem to fill a Prada card case. And the boys in their lives? Marcella's had about enough of them throwing themselves at her; Olivia's boy is her son; and Alexis is still searching, not for a boy this time, but for a man.

Playing with Boys is a savvy novel with charm, style, and heart to spare.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Praise for "The Dirty Girls Social Club:
..."a fresh spin on the best-of-friends novel that's funny, touching, and exhilarating. A winner!"
- Jennifer Crusie, author of "Faking It
"Don't dare lump this novel in with..."Sex and the City knockoffs. Yes, it's a compulsive beach read, but the women are smart, brassy, and messy enough to make you pause mid-sunscreen slathering."
- "Entertainment Weekly
"The feel of a night out with the girls...charming...undeniably fun."
- "Miami Herald
"This lively debut novel...reads like the Hispanic version of W"aiting to Exhale."
- "New York

About the Author:

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Playing with Boys is her second novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312332351
• ISBN 13: 9780312332358
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368