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Rona Jaffe "The Best Of Everything" (Penguin)
The year is 1952 and women in the workplace are finding their collective ambitious voice. In The Best of Everything five young women seemingly only have the employment of a New York publishing company in common. Caroline wants to climb the corporate ladder; to go from typist to editor. April is as naive as they come but learns the timeless power of sex appeal. Gregg has the life of a jet-setting actress, but secretly wants to settle down and be a housewife. Barbara is a single mother with a young daughter and Mary Agnes is mousy; and too shy for words.
One central theme of The Best of Everything is the need women feel to protect themselves from predatory men. They are always defending themselves against the less-than-admirable advances of the amorous kind. There is a great deal of strategic purse shuffling and genius body blocking at parties and the office. Yet, they all want to be married to respectable men.
Not a bad read and a good page-turner.
The year is 1952 and women in the workplace are finding their collective ambitious voice. In The Best of Everything five young women seemingly only have the employment of a New York publishing company in common. Caroline wants to climb the corporate ladder; to go from typist to editor. April is as naive as they come but learns the timeless power of sex appeal. Gregg has the life of a jet-setting actress, but secretly wants to settle down and be a housewife. Barbara is a single mother with a young daughter and Mary Agnes is mousy; and too shy for words.
One central theme of The Best of Everything is the need women feel to protect themselves from predatory men. They are always defending themselves against the less-than-admirable advances of the amorous kind. There is a great deal of strategic purse shuffling and genius body blocking at parties and the office. Yet, they all want to be married to respectable men.
Not a bad read and a good page-turner.
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