Name: THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
Rating: 2.666666666666667 (3 reviews)

RONA JAFFE

THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

Rona Jaffe

Glamour
Success
Sex.

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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The Best of Everything

Clare B

Most of my issues with this book can probably be chalked up to generational/temporal difference. Nonetheless, I found the way the women related to men just depressing. And yet it was engaging and an enjoyable read. So, you know, ok.

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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THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

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