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Esquire's 80 Books Every Person Should Read
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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
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Release date: 31 May 2005
ISBN-10 : 0143035290 | ISBN-13: 9780143035299
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Release date: 31 May 2005
ISBN-10 : 0143035290 | ISBN-13: 9780143035299
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Esquire's 80 Books Every Person Should Read (80 books items)"Before The Group, before Valley of the Dolls, and way before Sex and the City, there was this iconic novel about ambitious career women in New York City. For kicks, read it and then watch the Mad Men pilot. You will be amazed. And later in season one, see if you can catch Don reading this book in an effort to better understand the desires of young American women."