The Best of Everything Paperback - 2005
by Rona Jaffe
When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions more were electrified when they saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. Almost sixty years later, The Best of Everything remains touchingly and sometimes hilariously true to the personal and professional struggles women face in the city. There's Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor's office; naïve country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; and Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Jaffe follows their adventures with intelligence, sympathy, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.
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When Rona Jaffe’s superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions more were electrified when they saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. Almost sixty years later, The Best of Everything remains touchingly—and sometimes hilariously—true to the personal and professional struggles women face in the city. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office; naïve country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; and Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Jaffe follows their adventures with intelligence, sympathy, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.
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- Title The Best of Everything
- Author Rona Jaffe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date 2005-05-31
- ISBN 9780143035299 / 0143035290
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005045839
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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