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.
An edition of The Best of Everything
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The Best of Everything
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by Rona Jaffe
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That's what lured young women to New York. For some it was an exotic playground where they were free for the first time to live out their dreams - and unleash their desires. For others it was a chance to build an exciting career...and to put their talents, ambitions, and sometimes their bodies on the line to get it. And for others, New York was the beginning of the end...a place where the search for love became a downhill struggle with sex, booze, and despair.
For Caroline, April, and Gregg - three vital, eager young girls new to the ways of the city - New York was all of those things, and more. Rona Jaffe's novel of their passionate lives and struggles reveals for all time what a girl has to give, to get THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.
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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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The Best of Everything
2011, Penguin Books
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The Best of Everything
2005, Penguin Books
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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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