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; and, 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.

The Best of Everything

Rona Jaffe

Penguin??Books

Fame Game

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Last Chance (Coronet Books)

Spirited Annabel; romantic Chris; Emily, the perfectionist; and Daphne, the Golden Girl... 
Max, everybody's buddy...Alexander, the enigma...Ken, the perfect catch...and Richard, who took what he wanted, no matter what the cost-to anyone. 
They went to Radcliffe, to Harvard in the 50's. It was their golden chance to win everything they'd ever wanted and live happily ever after... 
They played by the rules, but the rules changed.

Class Reunion (Coronet Books)

British & Irish

Coronet Books

Mazes and Monsters (Coronet Books)

Mr. Right Is Dead (Coronet Books)

Rona Jaffe's frank, scandalous and thrilling 1958 novel, The Best of Everything follows a group of young women as they negotiate office romances, workplace politics, broken engagements, tiny apartments, lecherous bosses, heartbreak and lasting friendship, published in Penguin Modern Classics.New York, 1952: Four young women have come to the city: to find love, to build their careers and to savour the indefinable optimism of the times. Caroline is the college graduate, determined to escape the typing pool and become an editor. April is the beautiful country girl with a penchant for disastrous romances. Aspiring actress Gregg is tangled in a dangerous love affair with a playwright; and divorcee Barbara writes about lipsticks by day and cares alone for her daughter by night. Famously bedtime reading for Mad Men's Don Draper, The Best of Everything portrays the lives and passions of these ambitious young women with intelligence, affection, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.Rona Jaffe (1931-2005) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan. Jaffe wrote her first book, The Best of Everything, while working as an associate editor at Fawcett Publications in the 1950s. Published in 1958, it was later made into a movie, starring Joan Crawford. During the 1960s she wrote cultural pieces for Cosmopolitan magazine. Jaffe wrote sixteen novels during her career, including the controversial Mazes and Monsters (1981), adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks.If you enjoyed The Best of Everything, you might like John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'It harks back to a saner time when choosing progress and modernity was as straightforward as ordering dinner - "Two Scotches with water on the side, and two steaks"' Julie Burchill, author of Ambition'Decades before Sex and the City, Jaffe recorded the minutiae of women's lives and broke powerful taboos'Joan Smith, Independent

Best of Everything (Coronet Books)

Continues the story begun in the best-selling "Class Reunion" by following the lives of Emily, Annabel, Chris, and Daphne during the twenty-five years since they graduated from Radcliffe

After the Reunion (Coronet Books)

An American Love Story

Romance

Dell Publishing

Best of Everything

Literary

AVON.

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