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Original Title:	The Best of Everything
ISBN:	8854501719 (ISBN13: 9788854501713)
Edition Language:	Italian
Setting:	New York State(United States)

Il meglio della vita

Rona Jaffe

Paperback | Pages: 559 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 4930 Users | 592 Reviews

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Nel cuore di Manhattan, in un grattacielo moderno firmato Mies Van Der Rohe, negli uffici di una casa editrice decisamente glamour, tre ragazze svolgono con distratta grazia il loro lavoro, sognando di conquistare tutto quello che ogni giovane donna può desiderare, all'alba degli anni Cinquanta, a New York: "the best of everything", il meglio della vita, il meglio di ogni cosa. In interni dalle geometrie déco, che sembrano quadri di Mondrian, si aggirano Caroline Bender, una ragazza di buona famiglia che spera di far carriera prima che il suo giovane amico si decida a sposarla, e la candida April Morrison, una ragazza texana la cui innocenza sfiora la più disarmante ingenuità. Le due giovani donne in carriera fanno amicizia e si trasferiscono in un appartamento comune nel centro di Manhattan insieme alla collega Gregg Adams, che diviene presto il terzo membro del trio dopo aver messo al corrente Caroline e April dei suoi disperati tentativi di introdursi nel feroce milieu di Broadway e di sedurre David Savage, affascinante sceneggiatore playboy.

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Title	:	Il meglio della vita
Author	:	Rona Jaffe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 559 pages
Published	:	2007 by TEA (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. New York. Historical. Historical Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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Ratings: 3.77 From 4930 Users | 592 Reviews

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Published in 1958, this novel about five women working at a publishing firm in the early part of the decade has a certain fascination as a vivid time capsule. But did people really drink as much as all that in those days? I felt hungover if I read too much at once. The book was engrossing enough, but most of all it had me feeling grateful that I was not a young working woman in the 1950s (#metoo).

Because I enjoyed so much of this step back into the 1950s of my favorite city, Im keeping the four star rating which is slightly higher than the book actually deserves. Its the ending that Im having a hard time wrapping my head around. Three main characters get neat endings (which doesnt necessarily equate to happy but resolution is a must). But not our main character her ending is about as unresolved as it gets. It just doesnt fit and leaves me wondering why? Despite this flaw, I really

When The Best of Everything was published in 1958, the cover price was 50 cents, and if it still sold for that today it would be way overpriced. I can't remember the last time I hated a book this much. I bear so much hostility for this book that I am practically giddy.This is the story of four women who work for Fabian Publishing in New York in the early '50s. Ostensibly, Caroline is the smart ambitious one who wants to be an editor, April is the naive country girl who comes to the big city and

THE BEST OF EVERYTHINGBy Rona JaffeThis is most definitely one of the golden oldies!!! Written in 1958 it was part of the vanguard that changed contemporary fiction. So many young women saw themselves reflected in the novel. The story of five young girls trying to make their careers in a large New York firm rang true to so many of the lives of women in the 50's. It is a brilliant depiction of the personal and professional struggles that women found in the city and corporate world.

I'm not sure what it is about 1950s New York chick lit that I enjoy so, but it's a world full of crinolines and gloves, highballs (which are what liquor, exactly), endless parades of cocktails and brandies, and men and women who banter like hell afire. It's always a world where people are known by their last name and hometown (oh yes, the Cleveland Smiths) and everyone seems to have gone to the same dozen colleges. This book follows a group of twenty-something "career girls" through the filth,

Mentioned in this fun NY Times piece about romances, along with Georgette Heyer.

Have you ever read a book and as you got to the end you wanted to read more slowly because you just didn't want the book to end? That's how I was feeling when I was ambling toward the end of The Best of Everything. I LOVE stories from the mid-century because the 1950s, and the ensuing suburban discontent, is just fascinating to me. (Yeah, I love Mad Men.) I would have given the book five stars, but sadly, while the book started out well, I was really disappointed by the ending. It felt rushed