The Best of Everything
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.
Praise for Rona Jaffe and The Best of Everything
“A classic of its kind. The dialogue is real, the people are real.
Most career girls, past or present, will respond with the shock of authenticity.”
--The
Saturday Review
“Exciting, often hilarious, in a few incidences, tragic. Leaves
my generation speechless…”
--The
Houston Press
“It will ring a bell with anyone who has lived in New York at a
time of life when the city looks like a vast crackerjack box of amorous
possibilities. It has mountains of merit.” --The New York World
Telegram
“Very
good, very real.”
--The
Seattle Post
“Rona Jaffe will have you believing that very shocking things do
happen in New York bars and apartments. This is a story that should be
read by girls with dramatic ideas about New York, parents with qualms
about their daughters’ ideas, and men with baffling questions about
girls’ minds.”
--The
Cleveland Press
“An exuberant and readable book. Miss Jaffe is an artful and persuasive
storyteller. It almost will certainly ruffle many a male ego.”
--The
Spokane Chronicle
“Such is the author’s skill that this story of five girls
is unmistakably the story of someone you know.”
--The
Boston Globe
“Any employer reading these pages will make a mental note to check
up on what the girls in his office do after lunch, and with whom.”
--The
New York Post
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