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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.
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literary fiction, women's fiction, Bildungsroman, love story, Fiction, Women editors, Publishers and publishing, Stenographers, Female friendship, Young women, Roommates, Literature, Publishers and publishing -- Fiction, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Publishers and publishing, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, coming of age, Young women, fiction, Friendship, fictionPeople
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Rien n'est trop beau: roman
2012-09, Presses de la Cite
Mass Market Paperback
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The Best of Everything
2011, Penguin Books
paperback
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The Best of Everything
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
Electronic resource
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The Best of Everything
2005, Penguin Books
Paperback
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The Best of Everything
1976 January, Avon
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Before Valley of the Dolls and Sex in the City, there was The Best of Everything—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.
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