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| If you’re not living in the fast-paced corporate glamour of Manhattan’s elite, there’s no need to consider making any concrete moves towards this lifestyle. Thanks to Lauren Weisberger, the best-selling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing, anyone can take a literary trip to the Park Avenue high life without needing to shift from their armchair. Describing the immaculately manicured world of fashion or the heady-pace of a PR glamour existence, Weisberger provides a hearty dose of escapism from the mundane, but also highlights that everything isn’t all peachy keen behind a desirable yet demanding job. More than just the designer bags and designer shoes, it’s the petty whims of tyrannical bosses or inspirational quote-a-day slave drivers, caught up and blinded in their own careers and perceived self-importance. However, as the perks of these jobs include free designer clothes by Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta and Chloe and VIP access to Manhattan’s coolest clubs, Weisberger’s protagonists find themselves drifting away from family and friends as they get drawn further and further into their careers. Worth a read? Definitely. These novels are worth savoring and enjoying time after time, but not if you’re looking for anything too serious. Save the Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Kafka for another day, and dip into Weisberger’s social circle novels anytime you’re after something a little lighter. At times gossipy exposés, whilst at other times fascinating portrayals of the aura surrounding the fashion world, Weisberger’s novels provide in interesting take on everything about everyone that’s worth your while to know. Although The Devil Wears Prada is thought to be a roman à clef based on Lauren Weisberger’s time as an assistant to the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour, the speculation of fact behind the fiction only makes the work all the more intriguing. |
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