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The Best of Everything: A Novel Taschenbuch – 31. Mai 2005
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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.
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe448 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberPenguin Books
- Erscheinungstermin31. Mai 2005
- Abmessungen13.46 x 2.29 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-100143035290
- ISBN-13978-0143035299
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—Kirkus Reviews
“Jaffe… writes at the breakneck pace of a Sex and the City season finale and with the wry knowingness of a Nora Ephron novel…it’s by turns enraging and poignant to read this book with post-#MeToo eyes, to appreciate how much women’s lives have changed in the intervening decades and what’s at stake when our hard-won rights to workplace equality and abortion care are threatened.”
—Forward
“Lively, delightful and heartbreaking… The book is not tawdry; it's terrific…‘The Best of Everything’ seized the mood of the moment and told the truth, and women by the millions devoured it. Sixty-five years later, I did, too.”
—Star Tribune
“An incredibly pleasurable and devastating novel — do yourself a favor and get a copy.”
—The Cut
“At no point in the story do [the characters] really ‘make it,’ but in the meantime, they get as much from the world around them as they possibly can, trying to wrangle proposals or free steaks or promotions or raises out of the men who hold sway over their life. The intensity of their desire, their desperation, is riveting.”
—The Atlantic
“Sixty years later, Jaffe’s classic still strikes a chord, this time eerily prescient regarding so many of the circumstances surrounding sexual harassment that paved the way toward the #MeToo movement.”
—BuzzFeed
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- Herausgeber : Penguin Books; Reprint Edition (31. Mai 2005)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Taschenbuch : 448 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 0143035290
- ISBN-13 : 978-0143035299
- Artikelgewicht : 339 g
- Abmessungen : 13.46 x 2.29 x 20.32 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 929.477 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
- Nr. 6.848 in Frauenliteratur - Freundschaft
- Nr. 20.849 in Zeitgenössische Frauenliteratur
- Nr. 45.270 in Literatur
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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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First, it was a good read. The two main characters were well fleshed out such that I became invested in the story.
Second, the scenes, though written in the 1950s about women in the 1950s, read like it it was written today about women of these days.
Third, I liked the interweaving of the work life with the inner conflict of the main characters.
Fourth, the main thing that any modern feminist would criticize about this book is that marriage and being in a relationship with a man is still presented as the ideal path for women. Of course, it may be argued that it is a commentary on the prevailing value of that time that marriage was the ideal life goal for women. It may certainly be argued that the protagonist chose career above a romantic relationship.
Fifth, I like the ambiguous ending. The main character rose to be a respected editor. She loved her work. When the man who dumped her came back, she was honest enough to admit to him that she still cared for him, but when he proposed that she move to Texas to be near him so she can be his mistress, she declined. She loved her job. The last scene was her being photographed with a famous celebrity whom her magazine was profiling. She got the best of everything.
Jaffe artfully creates characters that embody these young women in their quest for a meaningful life, their struggles and the bonds they build (including with themselves) along the way.
I loved this book….. TOTALLY believable
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Es geht um einige junge Frauen, die in den frühen 50er Jahren versuchen, in New York, Fuß zu fassen. Dabei erfahren wir sehr viel über die Arbeitswelt und das Rollenverständnis von Frauen (und Männern) in dieser Ära. Teilweise hatte ich den Eindruck, dass Matthew Weiner (der Schöpfer von Mad Men) sich von diesem Text hat inspirieren lassen. Die Protagonisten erleben wir im Job, im Privatleben, in Liebesbeziehungen - alles mit einer für die Epoche erstaunlich freizügigen Sicht der Dinge und einem auch heute noch absolut greifenden Humor.
Ich kann den Roman ohne Einschränkungen empfehlen. Es ist ein wahres Lesevergnügen.
Les personnages sont attachants et la peinture de New York des 50's saisissante.




