The Best of Everything

Description:

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. ([source][1]) [1]: http://ronajaffe.com/bestofeverything/boebook.html

subjects: 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

People: Caroline Bender

Places: New York,  New York City,  Grand Central Station,  Lexington Avenue,  Park Avenue,  Madison Avenue,  Fifth Avenue

Times: 1950s