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基本信息·出版社：St. Martin's Griffin
·页码：307 页
·出版日期：2007年04月
·ISBN：0312357842
·International Standard Book Number：0312357842
·条形码：9780312357849
·EAN：9780312357849
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Manhattan glitterati with a desire to find the perfect mate have a new champion in matchmaker Vanessa Carlson. With her fledgling business giving her biggest rival--friend and mentor Althea Sevalas--a run for her money, Vanessa's services are definitely a hot commodity. To prove once and for all who's the best matchmaker in town, Vanessa and Althea enter into a competition to see who can score downtown playboy Mark Grayson as their client and send him walking down the aisle. Once a winner is crowned in this very public endeavor, there will be no question as to who rules Manhattan’s matrimonial mergers. But emotions often have a will of their own, and Vanessa learns that her rules don't always apply.
作者简介 DEE DAVIS's highly acclaimed first novel,
Everything In Its Time, was published in July 2000. Since then, she’s won the Booksellers Best, Golden Leaf, Texas Gold and Prism awards, and she’s been nominated for the National Readers' Choice Award, the Holt and an RT Reviewers' Choice Award. To date, she has written fourteen books and three novellas. The time Dee doesn’t spend at the computer is spent with her husband, daughter, cat, and cardigan welsh corgi.
媒体推荐 “Davis, known for her romantic suspense novels, segues easily into chick lit, providing a glitzy read that’s equal parts
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and ‘Page Six.’.”
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Publishers Weekly "Davis not only takes readers on an enjoyable adventure as we root for Vanessa but also conducts a tour of the other sexy and entertaining main character: Manhattan" –
Booklist “Dee Davis sparkles in this charmingly witty tale of a match that may not have been made in heaven, but sweeps you along for the ride.
A Match Made on Madison is great and decadent fun!”
–Julia London,
USA Today bestselling author of
Wedding Survivor and
Extreme Bachelor “Dee Davis strikes the perfect note in
A Match Made on Madison, a thoroughly modern homage to
Emma populated with wonderful characters and overflowing with wit, charm and heart. This one is most definitely a keeper!”
–Julie Kenner,
USA Today bestselling author of
Carpe Demon and
The Givenchy Code "Charming and witty,
A Match Made on Madison is the story of a modern-day Emma with a Manhattan twist. A fun and fabulous read."
–Carly Phillips,
New York Times bestselling author of
Cross My Heart 专业书评 From Publishers WeeklyDavis, known for her romantic suspense novels, segues easily into chick lit, providing a glitzy read that's equal parts
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and "Page Six." For hotshot haute matchmaker Vanessa Carlson, marriage is "a binding contract that will yield dividends for both," and love, if it strikes, is a quaint bonus. On her own after apprenticing to matchmaking innovator Althea Sevalas, Vanessa charges a $15,000 retainer and a grand a month for her services. Althea is mostly supportive of her protégé (they are, after all, rivals), but after a multimartini night, the two make a wager: whoever marries off "downtown playboy" and property development mogul Mark Grayson will be crowned the queen of Manhattan glitterati matchmaking. High society hijinx ensue as the Cartier cupids vie for Grayson, and though the woman Grayson has his steely gray eyes on is glaringly obvious to the reader, the direction he's leaning somehow eludes Vanessa. Davis lays on thick the obligatory designer name-dropping, but it's her heroine's exalted venue-hopping that's the source of much fun. The ending isn't exactly a shocker, but it'll score big points for romance readers.
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From BooklistVanessa Carlson is about to go head-to-head with her former mentor in the matchmaking business. In a very inebriated and public moment, they bet that they will be able to secure handsome and wealthy Mark Grayson as a client and cement for all time just who is the best matchmaker in Manhattan. The task is made a bit more difficult when the bet is made public in the next day's gossip column, and Mr. Grayson is not amused. Vanessa knows the odds are against her, but with the help of her close friends and her mother, of all people, she is actually able to make some headway. But every time Mark agrees to see her, she is interrupted by a crisis with one of her other clients. Vanessa is funny, quirky, and hard to resist. Davis not only takes readers on an enjoyable adventure as we root for Vanessa but also conducts a tour of the other sexy and entertaining main character: Manhattan.
Maria HattonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved 文摘 Chapter One Bemelmans Bar. The Carlyle Hotel, 35 East Seventy-sixth Street (corner of Madison Avenue), 212.744.1600.
Best remembered as the creator of the classic Madeline books for children, Ludwig Bemelmans once joked he’d like his tombstone to read: “Tell Them It Was Wonderful.” Well, wonderful it was, and still is, at Bemelmans Bar. Named in honor of the legendary artist, Bemelmans is a timeless New York watering hole that has drawn socialites, politicians, movie stars, and moguls for more than five decades.
—www.thecarlyle.com
Another round please.” I signaled the tuxedo-clad waiter with an impervious twist of my hand, the gesture undoubtedly not nearly as regal as I supposed. But then dirty martinis will do that to you. Two is really the limit even for the most dedicated of drinkers. And we’d already had three.
But this was a celebration.
And I wasn’t paying the bill. Which was just as well.
Bemelmans is my idea of heaven when it comes to a bar. Small and intimate, with killer drinks, fiery-hot toasted eda-mame, and folksy art that puts one in mind of a children’s storybook, it’s absolutely perfect. But you could mortgage a Park Avenue apartment and still not have enough to pay the tab—especially on a martini bender. So better that it was Althea’s headache.
I’d save mine for tomorrow.
Althea Sevalas was my friend, mentor, and sometime rival. In truth, I’d absorbed all she had to teach me with the voracity of the young and hungry and then proceeded to go out and apply what I’d learned on my own.
Actually, I’m making it sound easier than it was. I don’t know that I’d ever have taken the leap, so to speak, if it hadn’t been for Franklin Pierpont’s tendency toward dramatic scenes. Franklin is a billionaire geek w
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