Amazon comIn her debut novel Bling, Erica Kennedy exposes the dark underside of the hip-hop recording industry in the same way The Nanny Diaries outed the Park Avenue elite Kennedy charts the course of Mimi, a small-town girl from Ohio whois discovered by Lamont Jackson, a hip-hop mogul who discards of gym clothing after one use and sends potential огчцв bedmates to his personal physician for a full work-up before hitting the sheets Secondary characters like Lena Whitaker, the spoiled daughterof an LA lawyer who unknowingly foots the bill for trinkets like a $15,000 diamond necklace for Crazy G, Lena's booty call of the month, and Lamont's cocaine-snorting, Gucci-wearing, sister-in-law Vanessa de la Cruz, quickly become Mimi's image and social consultants Rounding out the crew are a host of rappers who work for Lamont, including Ernesto, aka Phat E, a bear of a man who "raps about his slick girl-getting abilities" yet goes home every night to his high-school sweetheart Renee, who "was proud to walk the halls with Ernesto even though he had ballooned to 280 pounds by senior prom " Bling takes readers on an insider's tour of the world of parties in the Hamptons, VIP lounges, fashion shows, and Tribeca penthouses In fact, the tour is so intimate that many readers will recognize thinly veiled faces along the way, like Ally C , the blond-haired, blue-eyed publicist from Long Island, and Irv Greene, the aging music executive from Brooklyn Kennedy leaves no stone unturned; there's even a prepubescent rapper aptly named Billy Tha Kid All these details make for a very long book, and by the end, readers may find themselves skimming the pages to find out what eventually happens Still, for anyone who has ever wondered what goes through the minds of P Diddy and his entourage as they emerge from the Escalade, Bling promises to enthrall and entertain --Gisele TouegBook DescriptionCinderella remixed: an uninhibited, unputdownable novel about a small-town girl and the music mogul determined to turn her into a megastar When twenty-year-old Mimi travels from a small town in Ohio to New York for an audition with Lamont Jackson, head of the hottest hip-hop label in the business, she has no idea that her life is about to change overnight The moment Lamont hears the beautiful young singer's silky voice, he signs her up in a bid to find mainstream success beyond the hip-hop charts Soon Mimi is rocking the chicest designer clothes, hanging with an A-list crowd, and being escorted through the velvet ropes into the city's most exclusive clubs But everything comes with a price As Lamont's new female star, Mimi is given the full makeover treatment Fading supermodel Vanessa de la Cruz restyles bohemian Mimi into a ghetto fab glamour girl with outrageous shopping sprees at Prada and Gucci; Lena Whitaker, the hip-hop obsessed daughter of a powerful attorney, is handpicked by Lamont to become her club-hopping sidekick; and Mimi can't quite tell if her spotlight-craving record producer, Daryl "Country D" McHenry, is friend or foe As Mimi is seduced by the clothes, money, and decadent lifestyle of her new crowd, she comes to see that Lamont's own future in the recording industry rests on her inexperienced shoulders Cinderella never felt pressure like this Fast-paced, sexy, and wickedly hilarious, Bling is a page-turner that grabs the reader from the very first line Taking us inside the glittering world of New York's hip-hop scene with an unforgettable cast of characters, smart dialogue, and a whole lot of attitude, Erica Kennedy grabs the microphone and makes it clear that she is a major new voice.  Этот сборник2004 г 528 стр ISBN 1401352154.