Welcome to the age of un-innocence... Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs. Meet "Carrie," the quintessential troubled young writer looking for love in all the wrong places..."Mr. Big," the business tycoon who drifts from one meaningless relationship to another..."Samantha Jones," the fortyish movie producer who epitomizes a whole generation of women who know only too well the fleeting nature of youth and beauty...not to mention the "Modelizers" who date and bed only the photogenic, the neurotic "Psycho Moms" who spoil and suffocate their only children, and the aging "Bicycle Boys" who cling to their transitory mode of transport and their knapsacks for dear life.