The Millennium Girl

By Coerte Felski and Coerte V.W. Felske

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747263132
• ISBN13: 9780747263135
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

sharp and ironic, a great story

There is a small group of women in the world, especially in fashionable big cities, who spend their 20's looking hot and finding generous, and wealthy men to take care of them. The Millennium Girl is about these women, who have a very short time period, or shelf life, to either make a ton of money off of their prey - I mean, men - or to find one who will marry them and keep them in their luxurious lifestyle forever. It's ironic, it's poignant, and it talks about the fears that all of us have - women and men - about growing old alone, being taken care of, being able to take care of ourselves, standing on our own two feet, and in the end, finding out who we are, regardless of where we come from, and creating a life that reflects that. I loved it. Well written, emotional, and it stayed with you. Definitely a really good read. If you were into this, you might want to check out Arthur Neresian's books too, for commentary on navigating life in NY.

NYC man

The very dapper Coerte V. W. Felske lives in New York City. He is the author of three novels: The Shallow Man, Word, and now, Millennium Girl. There has been no shortage of controversy surrounding the publication of his work, since Felske writes about subjects that are upsetting or morally objectionable. His first amusing novel, The Shallow Man, was about a man, Nick Laws, who was obsessed with models, and gave us the term "Modelizer." Right away, Felske's work seems destined to be filmed like authors like Nick Hornby and Chuck Palaniuk, who I think he somewhat resembles if any. His novels were a pleasant shock to me when I read them years ago. Felske was also good at coining terms and creating comic situations. He took his sharp observational skills and turned the focus on Hollywood and its hangers on, in his second novel, Word. Heyward Hoon is an unsuccessful screenwriter who gets hired by a producer to procure some women. Again, this wild and humorous look at what it takes to make it in movies is given the Felske touch. Both novels are now being made into films. His new novel, Millennium Girl, is mostly about gold diggers, and women who travel around the world in search of wealthy businessmen. Bodicea is a girl from a small town who is just about at the end of her window of opportunity, her twenties, and is desperate to marry a "walletman" before she turns thirty. Poignantly, Felske shows us a glimpse of this jetset world where people like to mix love and money. I talked to Coerte Felske recently in a cafe in Soho, where we talked about the entire buzz around his work. AL: There is a certain sensationalism about your work. Are you ever worried that there isn't enough literary content?CF: I think my books are, for the modern age, as literary as it gets. You can talk about the masters of old: I would guarantee that Doestoevsky or Fitzgerald, or anyone like that, wouldn't be writing like they did back then right now. It's much more of "sound bite-y" world. I don't think that I'm trying to adapt a style for that world, but I'm a product of it. There's so much more information being thrown at us. I wouldn't discount my books as being non-literary. If you look at today's writers, can you find someone who's delivering page for page the way I am? It's hard to find.

The Millennium Girl is fresh, funny, & original.

Golddigging Bodicea Lashley tells her story of living off of men's favors and shares her hard and fast rules for golddigging. She has defined an age window of between 20-30 years old to secure her future and land a man with big "bank."Of particular fun are the Indian-American monikers Bodacia coins for the other golddiggers: Travels With Men; No Deposit, No Return; Operation: I Do; and Every Little Bit Helps. I enjoyed the smart relationship between Bodicea and her best friend Napoleon.The tight plot for Millennium Girl gets an extra big thanks for not being predictable; Bodicea's ultimate fate is anybody's guess. Will she land her Walletman or overplay her hand? Felske does not tip us off.Bodicea jumps off the page as one of the strongest and most sure-footed heroines I have seen in a long while. Felske creates a heroine with formidable savvy and wit. I was amazed at how well Felske channels the voice and perspective of a twenty-seven year old woman. Wow. I thought that the human interactions played out realistically...except for Bo's relationship with her sister and with Jasper at the end of the story. I was going to give this story four stars: even though this book has a strong showing the ending is uneven and bumpy. But on reflection, Bodicea's luminescent hotel harangue puts this story over the top for me. There are moments of sheer brilliance in this story-- I look forward to reading Coerte Felske's backlist. I recently read Franzen's The Corrections. In comparison, The Millennium Girl came off as just more effortlessly brilliant to me and with better pacing.This novel is similar to Jay McInerney's '80s timepiece Story of My Life. If you like one you'll enjoy the other.

Extremely entertaining

While the title and introduction may present this book as a superficial read, a very important message is found in the end. I immensely enjoyed reading this book and was fascinated by the fact that the author is a man, who is a clever wordsmith and incredibly "in the know."

Run don't walk to buy this book! It's a must read.

Run don't walk to buy this book! It's a must read for every girl that loves pashmina scarfs and watchng Sex In The City on Sunday nights. Coerte V.W. Felske is the best thing to come along since Hemingway got drunk and stopped writing. Enjoy, it's a page turner.....