A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA gives a rich and hilarious new meaning to complaints about “The Boss from Hell.” Narrated in Andrea’s smart, refreshingly disarming voice, it traces a deep, dark, devilish view of life at the top only hinted at in gossip columns and over Cosmopolitans at the trendiest cocktail parties. From sending the latest, not-yet-in-stores Harry Potter to Miranda’s children in Paris by private jet, to locating an unnamed antique store where Miranda had at some point admired a vintage dresser, to serving lattes to Miranda at precisely the piping hot temperature she prefers, Andrea is sorely tested each and every day—and often late into the night with orders barked over the phone. She puts up with it all by keeping her eyes on the prize: a recommendation from Miranda that will get Andrea a top job at any magazine of her choosing. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, however, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether or not the job is worth the price of her soul.
Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada, a roman à clef of her time as a put-upon assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
In 2003, Weisberger authored her first book, The Devil Wears Prada, which spent six months on the New York Times Best Seller List. The book provides a semi-fictional but highly critical view of the Manhattan elite's empty obsession with materialism and fashion. As of July 2006, The Devil Wears Prada was the best selling mass market softcover book in the nation.
人名:Gogol 果戈理 Tolstoy 托尔斯泰 Chekhov 契科夫 Nabokov Lolita Caesar 凯撒(古罗马的将军,政治家,历史家,公元前100-44) neoclassical 新古典主义的 地名:Tel Aviv 特拉维夫(以色列港市) Dubai 迪拜(阿拉伯联合...
评分You remind me of myself when I was your age. Here is a rule of thumb: if you are not sure what you will be like ten years from now, just observe your colleagues or your boss, and very probably, you will become one of them. Andrea’s last straw is not Mir...
评分终于,这周officially啃完了The Devil Wears Prada一书,这好像还是本人读的第一本当代英文小说,自然跟看狄更斯等古人的感觉很不一样。最直观的感觉就是简单,完全不用像以前读书的时候啃古书隔两个词查一下字典,很顺的可以看下来,完全make sense不费力。不过俺这种超慢速阅...
评分我不得不承认,我常规的思维方式被电影里的这些东西一度带到海市蜃楼,不知所以,也无法评价电影本身的好坏,脑子里和女主角一样从一开始的不屑到迷恋在衣服包包里去了,甚至一度认为她的男朋友,朋友都没有体谅她,而且太否定时尚!看?!这就是这些华丽的东西对一个普通女人下...
评分以前看 The Devil wears Prada 的电影,总觉得味道不太对,一直想读一下原版书,最近赋闲在家,终于有时间。 看了蛮有同感的,也许是因为第一份工作也是助理性质,给美籍华人的职业经理人做英文秘书,的确是有点Miranda那样的做派。 第一天上班发现原来不只一个秘书,有和书中E...
现实生活的一本参考书
评分真无聊╮( ̄▽ ̄")╭ 貌似电影改编的还有趣点
评分Hilarious and witty.
评分Hilarious and witty.
评分现实生活的一本参考书
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