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Title details for Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger - Available

Everyone Worth Knowing

by Lauren Weisberger
Stina Nielsen
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada comes an irresistible novel about what happens when a girl on the fringe enters the realm of New York's chic, party-hopping elite.
On paper, Bette Robinson's life is good. At twenty-six, she's got a great deal on an apartment in Manhattan, and she's on target to become an associate at the prestigious investment bank where she works with her best friend. Her eighty-hour workweeks might keep her from socializing or dating outside her office walls—but she's paying her dues on the well-trod path to wealth and happiness. So when Bette quits her job like the impulsive girl she's never been, she not only shocks her friends and family—she has no idea what to do next.

For months, Bette gets out and about by walking her four-pound dog around her decidedly unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood. Then she meets Kelly, head of Manhattan's hottest PR and events planning firm, and suddenly Bette has a brand-new job where the primary requirement is to see and be seen.

The work at Kelly & Company takes Bette inside the VIP rooms of the city's most exclusive nightclubs, to parties crowded with celebrities and socialites. Bette learns not to blink at the famous faces, the black Amex cards, the magnums of Cristal, or the ruthless paparazzi. Soon she's dating an infamous playboy who's great for her career but bad for her sanity—and scaring off the one decent guy she meets. Still, as her coworkers repeatedly point out, how can you complain about a job that pays you to party? Bette has to agree—until she begins appearing in a vicious new gossip column. That's when Bette's life on paper takes on a whole new meaning—and she learns the line between her personal and professional lives is...invisible.

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  • Release date

    March 8, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9781442342477
      • File size: 416149 KB
      • Duration: 14:26:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 22, 2005
      A 27-year-old New York banker quits her job and finds work at a posh PR agency, trading her navy pantsuits for low-slung jeans and skimpy tops so she can hang out with the beautiful people at "in" places like Bungalow 8 (though first she has to find out what Bungalow 8 is
      ). Weisberger's bestselling The Devil Wears Prada
      hinged on a similar fish-out-of-water scenario, and while it may have worked then, this time around it feels like a rehash. Bette Robinson begins as a likable enough character, but it isn't long before Weisberger's caricature of her becomes frustrating: Bette is surprisingly successful at her new job, even as she's constantly complaining about "the ridiculousness of what we were doing"—i.e., orchestrating Manhattan social events in such a way that the agency's clients look good in gossip columns. Bette's personal life gets equally ridiculous treatment, as she enters into a "just for looks" and very public relationship with a British heartthrob who's really gay, as her friends and family (and the guy she really likes) look on in horror. The book occasionally entertains—as when it makes jabs at the very critics who panned DWP
      —but not nearly often enough. Agent, Deborah Schneider at Gelfman Schneider
      . 400,000 first printing
      .

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Her job as an investment banker no longer holds allure for Bette Robinson, so she quits. While mulling over her future, she is offered a top job with a prestigious PR group in New York, where she will work with celebrities and everyone else worth knowing. Narrator Stina Nielson romps through this world of glamour and high living, and by Disc 2 one is convinced it is her own story. Her interpretations of the characters are not necessarily agreeable to the listener, but her voice is young and fresh, and her enthusiasm offers the possibility that these things, which happen mostly in romance novels and movies, are actually happening to her. J.P. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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