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Rona Jaffe
Rona Jaffe was the author of sixteen books, including Class Reunion, Family Secrets, The Road Taken, and The Room-Mating Season (2003). Her 1958 best-selling first novel, The Best of Everything, was reissued by Penguin in 2005, and The Other Woman, originally published in 1972, was reissued by... show more



Rona Jaffe was the author of sixteen books, including Class Reunion, Family Secrets, The Road Taken, and The Room-Mating Season (2003). Her 1958 best-selling first novel, The Best of Everything, was reissued by Penguin in 2005, and The Other Woman, originally published in 1972, was reissued by William Morrow in 2014. She founded the Rona Jaffe Foundation in 1994, which presents a national literary award to promising female writers.

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Birth date: June 12, 1931
Died: December 03, 2005
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Merle
Merle rated it 10 years ago
I enjoyed this book, which toes the line between worthwhile and trashy as it follows the lives of four young women who meet while working at a New York publishing house in 1952. But while it initially looks like a workplace drama, and the depiction of the workplace and the publishing business is fas...
Merle
Merle rated it 10 years ago
I enjoyed this book, which toes the line between worthwhile and trashy as it follows the lives of four young women who meet while working at a New York publishing house in 1952. But while it initially looks like a workplace drama, and the depiction of the workplace and the publishing business is fas...
Kinga's Books
Kinga's Books rated it 13 years ago
You start reading this book and you think: oh, how great it must’ve been to live in the 50s in New York. The glamour, the cocktail hour, the restaurants, the handsome men who drank scotch on the rocks. The glory days when the bosses sexually harassed their female employees because that’s what you di...
Reading with cats
Reading with cats rated it 13 years ago
Psycho women and d-bag men
Pay It Forward
Pay It Forward rated it 13 years ago
So this is a book about a couple of young 20-something girls living in New York and working in the publishing industry, written in the 1950's. Firstly I'll say that I enjoyed reading it. The ending of this boom however is definately not THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. In fact, it was quite the opposite. It ...
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