{"title":"Alex Kuczynski","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the insightful and often provocative world of Alex Kuczynski. From cultural commentary to personal memoirs, explore her sharp wit and engaging narratives. Perfect for fans of Joan Didion.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beauty-junkies-book-alex-kuczynski-9780385508537","title":"Beauty Junkies","description":"A star writer for the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eStyles section captures the follies, frauds, and fanaticism that fuel the American pursuit of youth and beauty in a wickedly revealing excursion into the burgeoning business of cosmetic enhancement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmericans are aging faster and getting fatter than any other population on the planet. At the same time, our popular notions of perfect beauty have become so strict it seems even Barbie wouldn't have a chance of making it into the local beauty pageant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAging may be a natural fact of life, but for a growing number of Americans its hallmarks--wrinkles, love handles, jiggling flesh--are seen as obstacles to be conquered on the path to lasting, flawless beauty. In \u003ci\u003eBeauty Junkies\u003c\/i\u003e Alex Kuczynski, whose sly wit and fearless reporting in the\u003ci\u003e Times \u003c\/i\u003ehas won her fans across the country, delivers a fresh and irresistible look at America's increasingly desperate pursuit of ultimate beauty by any means necessary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a group of high-maintenance New York City women who devote themselves to preserving their looks twenty-four hours a day, to a surgery safari in South Africa complete with after photographs of magically rejuvenated patients posing with wild animals, to a podiatrist's office in Manhattan where a foot face-lift provides women with the right fit for their $700 Jimmy Choos, Kuczynski portrays the all-American quest for self-transformation in all its extremes. In New York, lawyers become Botox junkies in an effort to remain poker-faced. In Los Angeles, women of an uncertain age nip and tuck their most private areas, so that every inch of their bodies is as taut as their lifted faces. Across the country, young women graduating from high school receive gifts of breast implants - from their parents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs medicine and technology stretch the boundaries of biology, Kuczynski asks whether cosmetic surgery might even be part of human evolution, a kind of cosmetic survival of the fittest - or firmest? With incomparable portraits of obsessive patients and the equally obsessed doctors who cater to their dreams, \u003ci\u003eBeauty Junkies\u003c\/i\u003e examines the hype, the hope, and the questionable ethics surrounding the advent of each new miraculous technique. Lively and entertaining, thought-provoking and disturbing, \u003ci\u003eBeauty Junkies\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to be one of the most talked-about books of the season.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49982624039185,"sku":"CIN0385508530G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52817070948625,"sku":"CIN0385508530VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385508530.jpg?v=1750878480"},{"product_id":"beauty-junkies-book-alex-kuczynski-9780767914116","title":"Beauty Junkies","description":"A star writer for the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eStyles section captures the follies, frauds, and fanaticism that fuel the American pursuit of youth and beauty in a wickedly revealing excursion into the burgeoning business of cosmetic enhancement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmericans are aging faster and getting fatter than any other population on the planet. At the same time, our popular notions of perfect beauty have become so strict it seems even Barbie wouldn't have a chance of making it into the local beauty pageant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAging may be a natural fact of life, but for a growing number of Americans its hallmarks--wrinkles, love handles, jiggling flesh--are seen as obstacles to be conquered on the path to lasting, flawless beauty. In \u003ci\u003eBeauty Junkies\u003c\/i\u003e Alex Kuczynski, whose sly wit and fearless reporting in the\u003ci\u003e Times \u003c\/i\u003ehas won her fans across the country, delivers a fresh and irresistible look at America's increasingly desperate pursuit of ultimate beauty by any means necessary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a group of high-maintenance New York City women who devote themselves to preserving their looks twenty-four hours a day, to a surgery safari in South Africa complete with after photographs of magically rejuvenated patients posing with wild animals, to a podiatrist's office in Manhattan where a foot face-lift provides women with the right fit for their $700 Jimmy Choos, Kuczynski portrays the all-American quest for self-transformation in all its extremes. In New York, lawyers become Botox junkies in an effort to remain poker-faced. In Los Angeles, women of an uncertain age nip and tuck their most private areas, so that every inch of their bodies is as taut as their lifted faces. Across the country, young women graduating from high school receive gifts of breast implants - from their parents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs medicine and technology stretch the boundaries of biology, Kuczynski asks whether cosmetic surgery might even be part of human evolution, a kind of cosmetic survival of the fittest - or firmest? With incomparable portraits of obsessive patients and the equally obsessed doctors who cater to their dreams, \u003ci\u003eBeauty Junkies\u003c\/i\u003e examines the hype, the hope, and the questionable ethics surrounding the advent of each new miraculous technique. Lively and entertaining, thought-provoking and disturbing, \u003ci\u003eBeauty Junkies\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to be one of the most talked-about books of the season.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50360219795729,"sku":"CIN0767914112G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007018729745,"sku":"NIN9780767914116","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327555174673,"sku":"CIN0767914112VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0767914112.jpg?v=1750702167"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-alex-kuczynski.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}