The Devil Wears Prada
A Novel
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4.2 • 390개의 평가
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“The degree to which The Devil Wears Prada has penetrated pop culture needs no explanation.”—Vanity Fair
A gloriously wicked story about the ultimate Boss from Hell and the deals we make with the devil to get to the top
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.
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 her a top job at any magazine of her choosing. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, 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 it’s worth the price of her soul.
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Most recent college grads know they have to start at the bottom and work their way up. But not many picture themselves having to pick up their boss's dry cleaning, deliver them hot lattes, land them copies of the newest Harry Potter book before it hits stores and screen potential nannies for their children. Charmingly unfashionable Andrea Sachs, upon graduating from Brown, finds herself in this precarious position: she's an assistant to the most revered and hated woman in fashion, Runway editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly. The self-described "biggest fashion loser to ever hit the scene," Andy takes the job hoping to land at the New Yorker after a year. As the "lowest-paid-but-most-highly-perked assistant in the free world," she soon learns her Nine West loafers won't cut it everyone wears Jimmy Choos or Manolos and that the four years she spent memorizing poems and examining prose will not help her in her new role of "finding, fetching, or faxing" whatever the diabolical Miranda wants, immediately. Life is pretty grim for Andy, but Weisberger, whose stint as Anna Wintour's assistant at Vogue couldn't possibly have anything to do with the novel's inspiration, infuses the narrative with plenty of dead-on assessments of fashion's frivolity and realistic, funny portrayals of life as a peon. Andy's mishaps will undoubtedly elicit laughter from readers, and the story's even got a virtuous little moral at its heart. Weisberger has penned a comic novel that manages to rise to the upper echelons of the chick-lit genre.
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Very much of its time
It’s definitely worth reading if you have only seen the movie. You’ll notice a lot of differences. Andy is blonde, instead of brunette. Nigel is a very fringe character here, but a very important secondary character in the film (probably the best upgrade they made in adapting it). You’ll see it’s not always a contentious relationship between Andy and Emily. The biggest difference is the film really sanitized how much Andy’s life was coming apart at the seams. I think this is why her boyfriend’s character comes off as a jerk in the movie, because they removed key details about things happening in her personal life that she was too busy to pay attention to. It gets really dark before it snaps her back into focus. Without that, it seems like her boyfriend is whining about the demands of her job instead of trying to help her see how much she is neglecting the most important people she loves.
It’s an entertaining story, but you’ll see that the details are extremely set in the early 2000’s. The fact that Andy has to constantly run out to get Starbucks, hot lunches and so on makes little sense now when we have every food delivery platform on the planet. The fact they almost never text each other — everything is a phone call. That Andy gets horribly lost on her first day and is rushing around asking for directions; a reminder this was before Google Maps was a thing.
Devil Wears Prada
Love this book! It's better then the movie! I wish I would have read this prior to seeing the movie!
The book of my life
This book is definitely one of the reasons why I love NYC, and why I came here to re-invent myself.
I've read it once a year, and I never get tired.