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The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything

Author(s): Rona Jaffe

Location(s): New York City (NYC)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1958

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When it first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe’s debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office: naive country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm: Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Now a classic, and as page-turning as when it first came out, The Best of Everything portrays their lives and passions with intelligence, affection, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.

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One of Don’s first bed companions in series one of Mad Men is not another woman, but The Best of Everything, this 1958 novel by Rona Jaffe…It is a world of typing pools and...

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