Summer At Tiffany Large Print
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Summer At Tiffany Large Print
By (Author) Marjorie Hunt
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
1st March 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
Autobiography: general
B
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 19mm
396g
Description
Do you remember the best summer of your life
New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and Marty Garrett arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor.
Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, pinched pennies to eat at the Automat, and danced away their weekends with dashing midshipmen. Between being dazzled by Judy Garland's honeymoon visit to Tiffany, celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, and mingling with Caf society, she fell in love, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us.
Reviews
"This warm account of more innocent times makes an unspoken comparison with the way we live now. A fond backwardglance." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Hart's infectious vivacity resonates with a madcap immediacy, delectably capturing the city's heady vibrancy and a young girl's guileless enchantment." -- Booklist
"Charming and fun...reminiscent of The Best of Everything and Breakfast at Tiffany's." -- BookPage
"A charming story of a charmed summer...I didn't want Marjorie Hart's effervescent memoir to end." -- Emily Giffin, author of Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof
"This book offers insights into the women who lived through World War II. It's a perfect Mother's Day gift." -- USA Today
"The (Tiffany) company should put this book on prominent display, for heaven's sake--it's that much of a paean." -- Buffalo News
"What do you imagine might be the most memorable summer of your life Do you think it's happened yet -- San Diego City Beat
"Hart writes about that stylish summer with verve, recollecting with a touching purity a magical summer in Manhattan." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
Author Bio
Marjorie Hunt is a folklorist with the Smithsonian's Centre for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and is coproducer of The Stone Carvers, an Academy Award-winning documentary about the stone carvers featured in this book.
