{"product_id":"9780312274177","title":"Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eDear Reader, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs I was about to start my eleventh novel, I abruptly realized that I was making a huge mistake. On the verge of launching into the imagined world of a twenty-eight-year-old, I felt an intense need to tell another story, the story of a woman I know through and through...a woman with more wealth of experience, a woman who's seen more real glamour, known more fascinating people, lived in a world of more sophistication, and arrived at more hard-won maturity than that twenty-eight-year-old could hope for---in short, my own story. I've tried to remain as unknowable as possible, the better to let my heroines hold the stage, but now I was ready to tell the truth about myself, with no holding back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I've had a different life from that of the majority of women of my generation and background. While I seemed like another \"nice Jewish girl,\" underneath that convenient cover I'd traveled my own, inner-directed path and had many a spicy and secret adventure. I grew up in a complicated tangle of privilege, family problems, and tormented teenaged sexuality. After a riotous education at Wellesley, my life was turned upside down by a glorious year in Paris, marked by an intense but ill-starred romance. I spent the next half-decade in New York, sowing lighthearted wild oats until I finally met my true love, to whom I've been married for forty-six years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was fifty I had an utterly unexpected, almost unbelievable success as a number-one bestselling novelist that has continued for book after book. Challenging, lucky, exciting, and often devastatingly askew, my life seems to have been lived under a wild and antic star.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've had as much amazing fun as my heroines, and here's the book to prove it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Krantz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117091373296,"sku":"9780312274177","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312274177_p0.jpg?v=1763676592","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312274177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}