The Best of Everything
Author(s): Rona Jaffe
'This was New York . . . the marvelous secret things people did inside those tall buildings at the cocktail hour were the things he did every evening, and tonight it was all going to happen to her.' New York, 1952. Four young women have come to the city: to find love, to build their careers and to savour the indefinable optimism of the times. Caroline is the college graduate, determined to escape the typing pool and become an editor. April is the beautiful country girl with a penchant for disastrous romances. Aspiring actress Gregg is tangled in a dangerous love affair with a playwright; and divorcée Barbara writes about lipsticks by day and cares alone for her daughter by night. The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe's frank, scandalous and thrilling 1958 novel, follows them as they negotiate office romances, workplace politics, broken engagements, tiny apartments, lecherous bosses, heartbreak and lasting friendship.
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'Most career girls, past or present, will respond with the shock of authenticity' - The Saturday Review
'It harks back to a saner time when choosing progress and modernity was as straightforward as ordering dinner – 'Two Scotches with water on the side, and two steaks'' - Julie Burchill
Rona Jaffe (1931-2005) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan. Jaffe wrote her first book, The Best of Everything, while working as an associate editor at Fawcett Publications in the 1950s. Published in 1958, it was later made into a movie, starring Joan Crawford. Jaffe subsequently published six additional novels during her career. She died in 2005 in London.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.32
- : April 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 20mm
- : August 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rona Jaffe
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 813.54
- : 464