STRAIGHT UP AND DIRTY: A MEMOIR
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Hardcover: Regan Books, July 2006, ISBN: 0-0608-4327-6
"I did have my own friends, my own salary, my health, and TiVo: all the important things we're likely to take for granted. Still, when it hit that I'd now have to date again, I panicked. Dating meant nightclubs, heels, and black. It meant, 'No, thank you. Really, I'm full.' It meant matching bras and underwear. Clothes with 'micro' used to describe them. Because until you date again, people will hiccup lines about getting back on horses. So you invest in an Agent Provocateur whip and a subscription to an online dating service. . . ." --from Straight Up And Dirty
She had every girl's dream: the perfect marriage to the perfect guy in the perfect apartment on the Upper East Side. Marriage fit Stephanie Klein like a glove . . . but unfortunately it fit her husband like a noose. And then, just like that, Klein found herself "divorced when you're firm, fashionable, and let's face it--fetching."
Celebrated bloggist, photographer, and freelance writer Stephanie Tara Klein lets it all hang out in this juicy tell-all tracing her jump back into single life following her divorce. On the dating advice of her therapist, Klein attempts to keep "a pair and a spare" of men always on hand and has lots of bawdy fun along the way. But when the anniversary of the devastating breakup from her "wasband" forces her to revisit what happened, she finds herself wanting more than her therapist's recommended gimmick to keep her emotionally safe.
Straight Up And Dirty demonstrates that the true measure of success isn't what's crossed off life's to-do list. It's having the grace and fortitude to move through change, curls intact and smiling. 
"Nothing, it seems, is too private not to share with readers. And that is exactly how they like it... Ms. Klein's legions of followers seem as absorbed in her escapades as if she were a television character, the Carrie Bradshaw of New York bloggers." --The New York Times
"Fearless... Her adventures take her from Soho to the Hamptons--looking for love, with a cocktail in her hand." --The Independent (London)
"Klein's every move over the past two years has been validated and evaluated by an audience that has latched on to her life with an aspirational zeal." --Elle Magazine
"50 Must Summer Reads" --Entertainment Weekly
"You'll hoot with laughter, cringe and discover the addictive world of Klein." --London Daily Record
A kooky, heartfelt and ultimately triumphant chronicle of young divorce and the importance of family, friends and a good shrink." --Susan Shapiro, author of Lighting Up
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Marriage, Memoir, Relationships, Sex
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0061147990
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