Product Description

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. Almost sixty 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #178729 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-31
• Released on: 2005-05-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Saturday Review
A classic of its kind. The dialogue is real, the people are real. [It has] the shock of authenticity.

Review
A classic of its kind. The dialogue is real, the people are real. [It has] the shock of authenticity. (Saturday Review)

About the Author
Rona Jaffe is the author of sixteen books, including the bestselling Class Reunion, Family Secrets, The Last Chance, and Mr. Right Is Dead. She is the founder of the Rona Jaffe Foundation, which presents a national literary award to promising women writers.

Customer Reviews

Fun to read
I read this book one chapter at a time at bedtime, and it was an enjoyable way to end the day. I liked the characters, the writing was descriptive, and it gave me an idea of what young working women in New York City in the 1950s were like. I guess it was "scandalous" for it's time, but pretty tame compared to romance books published today. I also bought the DVD of the movie that was made after the book became a bestseller, and I was sorry that the movie didn't match up with the book exactly (though that's a problem with the movie and not the book.)

drudgery
I realy don't know how/why I finished it. Completely and utterly a total bore. Predictable? That's an understatement. I won't read another of her books.

The Best of Everything
Loved this book! Very scandalous for the fifties... Affairs, illegal abortions, career gals, all in NYC!