The Crasher
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Publisher Description
Ginny Walker always had one dream: to be a great clothing designer, the next Calvin Klein or Bill Blass. She will do anything to succeed. She does happen to have a cousin (male) in New York; he is an investment banker of some sort, with lots of contacts, so she sets off for the Big Apple.
Starting in a lowly job on 7th Avenue, she begins the life too many young New Yorkers know: a cramped living space, a dead end job with a sleazy boss, a wonderful set of friends, and a great amount of talent. Part of this talent is put to use designing evening attire for aw hot young model and partly used in dressing herself: Ginny Walker is wearing her own creations to the best parties in town, parties to which she is not invited, parties she crashes.
Along the way Ginny falls in love, is gravely misused by the people she thought cared for her and does a great deal of growing up. But, it is only when she witnesses a murder that she needs to make the most important decisions of her life and become the kind of adult -- and designer -- she always knew she could be.
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Powerful fashion magazine editor Lord (My Sister's Keeper; The Easy Way to Good Looks) knows her stuff: the rag trade, journalism, law enforcement, making the scene. Alas, authentic details (and enough famous names to fill Billy Norwich's Rolodex) only expose the thinness of her heavily sequined plot. Ambitious young designer Ginny Walker crashes the Beautiful People's parties, hoping the press will notice her original talent. She succeeds--and then some--when she leaves her cloak at a New York Public Library gala after witnessing the murder of a drug lord on a darkened upper floor. Most of the book is back story, bringing us from Ginny's unhappy adolescence (hapless mother; delusional father) through her hard life outside the in-crowd to love with John Q. Peet, a stylish journalist who lives for a warm word from his more famous journalist father. Lord's prose wanders into excess at every opportunity, and the whodunit aspects of the narrative are lifeless. Even so, many readers will cheer plucky Ginny when she makes it past the velvet ropes into the glittery world of her dreams.
