Trading Up: A Novel by Candace Bushnell
Author:Candace Bushnell [Bushnell, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Humorous, Retail, Romance
ISBN: 9781401398279
Google: TYiZAAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2003-07-01T04:00:00+00:00
The bustling backstage noises of a hundred frenzied human beings engaged in the task of putting together the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was not enough to drown out a high, childish voice that rose above the din to declare: “And it isn’t enough to be beautiful and have your own money these days. Now a girl has to be able to give a great blow job—on demand—and be kinky in bed. I asked him, Just what do you mean by kinky? And he said, anal sex, at least once a week, and then he said something about a dog collar . . .”
The voice was suddenly drowned out under a short burst of staccato music that came from the other side of the thin partition that hid the runway as Janey turned with a superior smile toward the speaker. Seraphina, a dark-haired beauty with only one name, was seated two chairs away from her in front of a long, makeshift makeup mirror, her soft brown eyes opened wide in outraged injury. Janey’s brief assessment of the girl, formed in the space of two afternoon rehearsals, was that she was a dumb, silly thing. No more than twenty-one years old, she had little to talk about besides the men who had tried to sleep with her and the family she had left behind on a farm in South America. For a moment, Janey had wondered if she had appeared as ridiculous as Seraphina at that age, but deciding she hadn’t, she’d dismissed Seraphina, although it was difficult to ignore her when she was in the same room. Silenced now by the motions of the makeup artist, who was attempting to draw a line around dark lips so full they were reminiscent of a vagina, Seraphina continued to gesticulate madly.
Behind Janey, her own makeup artist, Contadine, stood mixing a variety of liquid foundations on the surface of her hand. Their eyes met in the mirror as Contadine, who had an opinion about every topic under the sun and felt the constant need to share her wisdom, motioned with her head toward Seraphina. “Isn’t it the truth though?” she said, stepping forward and gently dabbing Janey’s face with the foundation. “The stories I could tell you,” she continued. “No matter how much we demand from men, they always control the game. Every time we think we’ve got some freedom or independence, they up the stakes. Hell. It’s all this Internet stuff, you know? This porn everywhere. At one time they would have been lucky to get a blow job. Now they want three girls and a monkey, and all of ’em worshipping at the altar of the cock . . .”
Contadine laughed loudly, taken with her own wit, as Janey pressed her lips into a cold smile. She’d had millions of these conversations over the years, and the presumed camaraderie coupled with the required false gaiety was always exhausting; Janey understood why movie stars demanded that makeup and hair people keep their mouths shut.
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