# The Best of Everything

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- Book: [The Best of Everything](https://www.bookquiver.com/rona-jaffe/the-best-of-everything) ([The Best of Everything.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rona-jaffe/the-best-of-everything.md))
- Authors: [Rona Jaffe](https://www.bookquiver.com/rona-jaffe)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-631-2
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2011-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.