An edition of The Best of Everything (1958)

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An edition of The Best of Everything (1958)

Van alles het beste

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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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Arbeiderspers
Language
Dutch
Pages
512

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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, fiction

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Caroline Bender

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New York New York City Grand Central Station Lexington Avenue Park Avenue Madison Avenue Fifth Avenue

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1950s

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Amsterdam
Copyright Date
2011

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Library Binding
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512p.
Number of pages
512

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OL34740209M
Internet Archive
vanalleshetbeste0000jaff
ISBN 10
9029578408
ISBN 13
9789029578400
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59235974

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OL551687W

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You see them every morning at a quarter to nine, rushing out of the maw of the subway tunnel, filing out of Grand Central Station, crossing Lexington and Park and Madison and Fifth avenues, the hundreds and hundreds of girls. Some of them look eager and some look resentful, and some of them look as if they haven’t left their beds yet.
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