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In this postmodern, trash-talking, anything-goes culture, manners sometimes appear to be going the way of the typewriter. Yet according to Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh, authors of the Globe and Mail's weekly column on urban etiquette, they're actually more important than ever. "Manners," they pronounce in The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum, "are an integral part of good citizenship…. Behaving in a thoughtful way helps both morally and aesthetically to make the world a better place." But if good manners in general are a gal's daily gift to the world, behaving with decorum is all in the details. In The FG's Guide, Izzo and Marsh tackle a broad range of circumstances bound to be encountered by the twenty- to thirtysomething set, including the workplace, society (from shopping to funerals to dealing with pregnant women), friendship, sex and courtship, weddings and divorce, home, and entertaining. And the advice itself often turns out to be quite entertaining. Although a guide to decorum might suggest an old-fashioned, Emily Post-type approach to modern life, The FG's Guide is far from prudish. Considering a one-night stand? Slept with your boss? Got drunk and behaved horribly at your best friend's wedding? Marsh and Izzo have a humorous, well-considered answer for just about anything. In Izzo and Marsh's view, any young woman with an ounce of common sense has the capacity to become a 21st-century Holly Golightly: polite yet fun, sexy yet well-mannered. "Manners," they profess with all the confidence in the world, "will make you fabulous." --Svenja Soldovieri
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