Sex and the City is a book by Candace Bushnell and based on her and her friend's lifestyles. It was copyrighted in 1996 and published in 1997. It was re-published in 2001.

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The book, like the television series that followed it, takes its name after a column that Bushnell began to write in 1994.

Much of the book is different from the television series. The main characters at the series get much less exposure at the book, which gives Bushnell's other friends more space instead. Such stars as Francis Ford Coppola and Karl Lagerfeld make cameo appearances at the book. Other celebrities asked the writer not to be identified.

The main characters of the show, Sex and the City, are almost non-existent at the book, specially Charlotte York and Miranda Hobbs. Samantha Jones does not appear that much either. Carrie is the one that gets the most exposure out of the show's four main characters. Stanford, who is Carries friend at the show, gets much more exposure at the book.

The show's main characters also sport major personality differences at the book: Charlotte, who is a shy, almost virginal American woman in the show, is described as a sex crazed British girl in the book. Samantha dates a model in the show's last season and she plans on staying with him. In the book, she only dated a model for a short period of time. Stanford, a fashion designer in the show, is an artist in the book. Similarly, Miranda Hobbs is a lawyer in the show, but a cable executive in the book.

The book was published by Warner Books.