Party Girl Endorsements
"Imagine Bridget Jones with a by-line, bigger IQ, and substance abuse issues, and you’ve entered Party Girl territory. Anna David writes with a strain of relentless, self-deprecating genius that re-casts the worn-down hooves of Prada-wearing demons with spanking new kicks….Party Girl is the kind of book it’s impossible to read without stopping to repeat great lines to total strangers, who will then try and follow you home. The writing is at once laugh-out loud hysterical and Capote elegant…. Every generation deserves an epic worthy of its own glam self-destruction and redemption. This time, Party Girl earns the crown. It’s a fantastic, beautifully written, and authentic slice of a life that looked shiny on the outside. By the end, the reader is just praying Ms. David will get back in her chair and write After-Party.”
— Jerry Stahl, bestselling author of Permanent Midnight and I, Fatty
“Media is a twitter with stories of celebrity party girls and yet not a soul seems to understand what the lives of these young women are truly like. Well, here it is. Anna David has provided us with the real deal. A roller coaster read that transports us in to the world of the Party Girl. Once emblematic for feminine machismo and independence, the party girl of today is in fact a human being with an illness. At once uproarious and poignant, Anna David’s portrayal of the experience of addiction and nuances of recovery is the most accurate I have come across.”
— Dr. Drew Pinsky, addiction expert, host of Loveline, star of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
“Anna David takes on a harrowing joyride through the often joyless Hollywood Hills of self-destruction and redemption. Party Girl is at once fresh, heartbreaking and downright sexy. To watch Amelia Stone struggle to transcend the booze and booty-calls that define her sense of self is to ride shot-gun with a truly authentic voice. This is the real thing.”
— Ian Kerner, New York Times bestselling author of She Comes First and Be Honest — You’re Not That Into Him, Either
“I love this book! Party Girl is a smart, hilarious and sometimes poignant page-turner that takes you past the velvet ropes and into the rabbit hole of the Hollywood party scene. Anna addresses addiction, recovery and modern love in such a funny, honest, caustic and no-holds-barred way, you feel like you’ve lived it (and in the case of Anna’s delightfully flawed and redeemed heroine) survived it.” — Cindy Chupack, author of The Between Boyfriends Book and a writer/executive producer of Sex and the City
“Let the prose paparazzi’s flashbulbs explode on this stunning debut. Fiercely sexy, bracingly frank. In Party Girl, Anna David quite simply gives us back our soul in this played-out Paris Hilton era. Reality fiction never had it so good. This girl’s the real thing.” — Rachel Resnick, bestselling author of Go West, Young F*cked Up Chick
“You’ll screech in amazed delight at every page of Anna David’s Party Girl. If you’ve ever stared at photos of Hollywood nightclubs and wondered, what do the Hollywood’s gliterati really talk about and do when the cameras are off, Anna David has the travel guide for you. A hilarious tale of a madcap self-destructing screwball heroine – Irene Dunne with a Sidekick and Prada bag full of cocaine – careening through the glamorous palaces of Tinseltown. A Less Than Zero for the Paris Hilton age.” — Richard Rushfield, author of On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood
“This is your brain on Party Girl: Sizzle. Pop. Narrative-as-amyl-nitrate. Anna David’s reality fiction dissects the supposed glitz of Hollywood and celebrity “journalism” through the getting-sober eye of Amelia Stone, L.A.’s version of Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw–but with triple the level of smarts, self-awareness and psychopathology. This story wraps itself in societal satire but at its core is an earnest account of one young woman’s journey into her own heart of darkness. It’s that exploration that resonates for the reader long after the party is over.” — Samantha Dunn, author of Faith in Carlos Gomez
“An inspirational story — a triumph over the red carpet, instant intimacy with celebs and an open bar.” — Liz Smith
