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Park Avenue Summer

by Renée Rosen
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“‘Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada,’ which might as well be saying ‘put me in your cart immediately.’”—PopSugar
 
It’s 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine’s brazen new editor in chief—Helen Gurley Brown—shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits...
New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small Midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands a job working for the first female editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown.
For Alice, who wants to be a photographer, it seems like the perfect foot in the door, but nothing could have prepared her for the world she enters. Editors and writers resign on the spot, refusing to work for the woman who wrote the scandalous bestseller Sex and the Single Girl, and confidential memos, article ideas, and cover designs keep finding their way into the wrong hands. When someone tries to pull Alice into a scheme to sabotage her boss, she is more determined than ever to help Helen succeed.
 
While pressure mounts at the magazine, Alice struggles not to lose sight of her own dreams as she’s swept up into a glamorous world of five-star dinners, lavish parties, and men who are certainly no good. Because if Helen Gurley Brown has taught her anything, it’s that a woman can demand to have it all.

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    April 30, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781101991152

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2019

      Working as the secretary to a controversial editor at a struggling magazine was not precisely the type of opportunity that aspiring photographer Alice Weiss was looking for when she came to New York from her small Midwestern hometown. From her first meeting with Helen Gurley Brown, however, Alice is won over by Brown's passion and determination to rebrand Cosmopolitan as a sex-positive magazine for young single women. In Rosen's fifth historical novel (e.g., Dollface), Alice must adjust to big-city life while navigating the tense office politics swirling around Brown, the attentions of an untrustworthy but charming office crush, and the unexpected persistence of unanswered questions from her past. This is a satisfying read about one young woman's attempt to take advantage of the doors opening for women in 1960s America, and Alice is a likable complex heroine. Though it feels a bit unresolved when compared to Alice's personal journey, the early history of Brown's reign at Cosmo contains more than enough intrigue and drama to hold readers' interest and is a fitting backdrop to Alice's quest. VERDICT Recommended for fans of Fiona Davis and Melanie Benjamin.--Mara Bandy Fass, Champaign P.L., IL

      Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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