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The Best Of Everything
[Paperback - 2023]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Contemporary Fiction - Women Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780143137313 | Pages: 496
Shipping Weight: .329 | Dimensions: 5.03 x .82 x 7.7 inches

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Rona Jaffe's beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition with an introduction by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme
 
A Penguin Classic
 
When Rona Jaffe’s superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions more were electrified when they saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. Sixty-five years later, The Best of Everything remains touchingly—and sometimes hilariously—true to the personal and professional struggles women face in the city. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office; naïve country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; and Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Jaffe follows their adventures with intelligence, sympathy, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.

Rona Jaffe established The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards program in 1995. It is the only national literary awards program of its kind dedicated to supporting women writers exclusively. Since the program began, the Foundation has awarded more than $850,000 to a total of 92 women.Ms. Jaffe was the author of sixteen books, includingClass Reunion,Family Secrets,The Road Taken, andThe Room-Mating Season(2003). Her 1958 best-selling first novel,The Best of Everything, was reissued by Penguin in 2005.

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