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2 stars
Kind of like a less entertaining Valley of the Dolls.
Paperback, 437 pages
English language
Published July 5, 2005 by Penguin Books.
The Best of Everything
by Rona Jaffe
2 stars
(1 review)
Before Valley of the Dolls and Sex and the City--the iconic novel of ambitious career girls in New York City
When it was first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe's debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There's Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor's office, naive country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Now a classic, and as page-turning as when it first came out, The Best of Everything portrays their lives and passions with intelligence, affection and prose as sharp as a paper cut. (back cover)
Subjects
- Publishers and publishing -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Women editors -- Fiction
- Stenographers -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Roommates -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction