The Devil wears Prada

mass market paperback, 432 pages

English language

Published Dec. 7, 2006 by Anchor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-307-27555-4
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OCLC Number:
70117771

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Andrea Sachs is the personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine. As can be imagined, the relationship of Ms. Priestly to Ms. Sachs is one of unmitigated oppression, enormous egoism, and blatant disregard for human feeling. Andrea is given a series of increasingly degrading and mind-bogglingly menial tasks, and must complete all of them, around the clock, without complaint. What induces Andrea to suffer this treatment? It is the dangled promise that a recommendation from Miranda will get Andrea a top job at any magazine of her choosing. But as her burden increases, she realizes that she may have made a deal with the devil, and that the price of a future job may be her very soul.

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I loved the 2006 movie so much that I'd planned on reading the Prada series for ages. I had high hopes as well because again, the movie was so good - and the book is always better, right?

In the case of The Devil Wears Prada, I feel that this isn't the case. I was extremely disappointed with the story and what was somewhat naivety and innocence initially quickly becomes a dismissal of anyone who takes the role within 'Runway' magazine and the fashion industry as a whole which grated on my nerves.

I'm trying of course not to compare the two, but in the movie, Andrea isn't bitchy towards those who actively help her - but it's shown time and again throughout the book and I found myself wishing that Miranda Priestly would fire the young assistant and put us all out of our misery.

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Subjects

  • Periodicals -- Publishing -- Fiction.
  • Fashion editors -- Fiction.
  • Women editors -- Fiction.
  • Supervisors -- Fiction.
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.