- literary fiction, women's fiction, Bildungsroman, love story
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Rona Jaffe
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Coronet, Avon, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, French, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780380005819
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Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931 – December 30, 2005) was an American novelist who published numerous works from 1958 to 2003. During the 1960s, she also wrote cultural pieces for Cosmopolitan.
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