Save Karyn

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Save Karyn
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Karyn Bosnak
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:464
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Personal finance
ISBN/Barcode 9781863254410
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
Imprint Bantam
Publication Date 3 November 2003
Publication Country Australia

Description

Drowning in $20,000 worth of credit card debt and jobless, shopaholic Karyn Bosnak had the audacious idea to ask strangers for money online to pay them off and it worked! For Karyn Bosnak, after growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, living the 'good life' in New York City was a dream come true. A big-shot producer on a 'Judge Judy'-style talk show, Karyn had the six-figure income and developed a liking for the finer things in life, such as Prada blouses, oriental rugs and $400 sandals. Each time she would pull out her credit card, Karyn could justify any expense. Then she hit rock bottom and found herself jobless, and $20,000 in debt. So what does a cash-strapped girl do? Karyn started a website www.savekaryn.com on which she asked for donations to help her pay off her shopping debts. Karyn started to receive emails from all over the world, either confessing to their own debt-ridden lives, or criticising Karyn's. But after only four months of internet pan-handling (and around 2 million hits on her website), a change in lifestyle and selling more than a few of her precious possessions on eBay, her debt was gone! SAVE KARYN is the hilarious true story of a gal with big-city aspirat

Author Biography

Karyn Bosnak achieved worldwide notoriety when she found herself hopelessly in credit card debt and started up her own website, www.savekaryn.com, to ask people for money. Her story, Save Karyn, has been published throughout the world and is on the fast-track for production as a major feature film by Sony Pictures. Born and raised in Chicago, Karyn now lives in Brooklyn, New York. This is her first novel.