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Blame It On Eve. (Fiction).(Brief Article)
PHILANA MARIE BOLES. Ballantine/One World, $13.95 paper (320p) ISBN 0-345-44712-3
"Men are a dime a dozen and I have five dollars," Shawni Kaye Baldwin brags to Ernie, her gay hairstylist and closest confidant, at the beginning of Boles's cliche-riddled debut. Newly engaged and pushing 30, she behaves exactly like the spoiled, empty-headed caricature she's so afraid of becoming ("I wonder if I look like a hoochie"), addicted to surface flash and material goods. The former model turns down a lucrative gig with a top designer, much to her mother's chagrin, to get engaged to Bo Delaney, a smooth entertainment attorney who keeps her decked out in designer clothes in an …
