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The Best of Everything

by Rona Jaffeliterary work· published 1958

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Before *Valley of the Dolls* and *Sex in the City*, there was *The Best of Everything*—the iconic novel of ambitious career girls in New York City. When it was 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.

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The Best of Everything was adapted into a 1959 film.

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    The Best of Everything
    1959 · film · 121 min · dir. Jean Negulesco · IMDb ↗
    IMDb6.650%

    An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.

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