Product Description

When Stephanie Klein hit her twenty-fourth birthday she thought she had everything she could possibly have wanted from life: a good job, a successful husband, a Manhattan apartment and a baby on the way. By the time she hit thirty it was all gone; her husband and her baby lost. She was left to start again with a whole new life and an entirely depleted cast of characters. Her only company was her 'Furkid' (the small brown dog she now shared a bed with). Her friend told her to get out dating again and to employ the sandwich principle - keep one man on either side, and enjoy the interesting one in-between. So she set off, with much trepidation and wardrobe anxiety, to discover single sex all over again...The weblog she kept of her new found freedom and sexual adventures became a sensation in the States. Her brilliantly funny, acerbic descriptions of love, life and dating bought her press and acclaim. "Straight up and Dirty" is Stephanie's funnier than comedy, truer than romance, sexier than fiction account of her journey.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142322 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From the Publisher
Sex and the City meets Bergdorf Blondes meets The Sexual Life of Catherine M - now in a beautifully packaged mass-market paperback

From the Back Cover
Stephanie Klein believed she had everything that could ever make her happy: a luxury Manhattan apartment, a successful career and a gorgeous doctor husband. Gabriel...

So, when Stephanie learns about her husband's illicit liaisons with a Fifth Avenue lady, she's heartbroken and plunges herself into another, completely different life: one in which she is forced to make a choice between nights in with a take-away and her faithful dog, or nights out on the town.

Embracing singledom with open arms and much wardrobe anxiety, Stephanie bravely sets out to explore New York's ruthless dating scene; where the men and their quirks are as varied as the cocktails they buy her. And she discovers that success in life, like success in finding the right man, is never simply about fulfilling a checklist...

'...beneath the wisecracking tales of solo supermarket shopping and phone therapy, the raw emotion about her divorce and nightmare mother-in-law rings true' Marie Claire

About the Author
Stephanie Klein - dubbed 'the internet queen of Manhattan' by the Independent - is a freelance writer, photographer and popular blogging mistress. Her unique website www.stephanieklein.com averages over 100,000 visitors a month. Her writings have been published in the UK, Belgium and China, and her photographs appear in all rooms of The Hotel Gansevoort in New York City as well as on numberous fashion and celebrity pages.

Customer Reviews

Oh my god
I was looking forward to reading this - having read diary of a manhatten call girl I thought this may be in the same vein. I was very dissapointed - the writing is very difficult to follow, flipping from present to past all the time without imparting any particular information. I have only made it to the fifth chapter and I am so bored I don't know if I will carry on...

I'm a guy and I liked this book!
I read this book by accident. My girlfriend in London left it here when she was visiting, and I started to casually leaf through the pages. I was captivated by the witty observations and surreal circumstances. Ms. Klein has a gift of analysing the obvious and bizarre, then presenting it in a humorous but heartwarming way. Zipped through it in just a few days. Highly recommend.

My book club can't stop talking about STRAIGHT UP & DIRTY
Ok, maybe it isn't so much a book club as a reason for me and 15 friends to get together at Vibe Bar and drink but we chose to pick up Stephanie Klein's STRAIGHT UP & DIRTY to have a drinking discussion of it. First, I was pleasantly surprised. This girl can write. She is sassy, creative and most of all human. My friend Gretchen thinks we should invite her to our next get together to go through the torment she describes about her failed marriage and what she did to take stock in herself. My suggestion is pour yourself a drink and spend some time with this quick reading yet detailed account.