The Bulgari Connection

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The Bulgari Connection  
Author Fay Weldon
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Flamingo Press
Publication date 2001
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 224 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-00-712126-1 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC Number 59550660

The Bulgari Connection is a 2001 novel by Fay Weldon that became notorious for its commercial tie-in: in exchange for £18,000 from the jeweler Bulgari, she was required to mention the name of the jeweler at least 12 times. Such a move was unprecedented for a published, established author (The Bulgari Connection was her 23rd novel), and a front-page article was published about it in the New York Times, quoting such writers as Rick Moody, J. G. Ballard, Michael Chabon, and Jeanette Winterson.

The story concerns a character named Grace McNab Salt, and her re-integration into high society after ending a term in prison that she served for attempting to run her husband's mistress Doris Dubois over with her car.

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