The Receptionist: An Education At The New Yorker

Author: Janet Groth

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Price : $35.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781616203061
Publisher : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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Publication date : October 2013
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In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn't expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine's eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself.

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"Revelatory... deeply reflective... Groth chronicles the many dazzling personalities whose lives touched, and moved, hers." (Publishers Weekly)"

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