by Rona Jaffe
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...
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...
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...
Psycho women and d-bag men
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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