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Description
A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. 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... read more
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Summary
The novel begins with its main character, Andrea Sachs, stuck in midtown Manhattan traffic, trying to remember how to use a manual transmission. She is driving a Porsche roadster that belongs to her boss, Runway magazine editor Miranda Priestly. Sachs must deliver the roadster from the repair... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Andrea Sachs: a recent Brown University graduate, works as a junior personal assistant to a powerful and tyrannical fashion magazine editor. She is called Andy by her friends and family.
- Miranda Priestly: the British-born editor-in-chief of Runway
- Emily Charlton: Miranda's former junior assistant now her senior assistant, responsible for more business-related matters such as reconciling expense statements
- Alex Fineman: Andrea's boyfriend, who teaches at an elementary school in the South Bronx through Teach for America
- Lily Goodwin: a free-spirited graduate student in Russian literature at Columbia with curly black hair, who rooms with Andrea, her longtime friend whom she went through high school and college with
- Nigel: a very tall British gay man
- James: another gay man
- Jeffy: oversees Runway 's famous "Closet"
- Hunter Tomlinson: a prominent New York tax attorney
- Eduardo: a security guard at the Elias-Clark building
- Christian Collinsworth: a hot young writer
- Caroline and Cassidy: the twin daughters Miranda dotes on
- Cara: the girls' nanny
- Jill: Andrea's older sister
- Benjamin: Lily's ex-boyfriend
- Allison: former senior assistant now beauty editor
- Lucia: fashion department
- Jocelyn: editorial
- Stef: accessories
Memorable Quotes
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“Details of your incompetence do not interest me.”
First Sentence
The light hadn't even officially turned green at the intersection of the 17th and Broadway before an army of overconfident yellow cabs roared past the tiny deathtrap I was attempting to navigate around the city streets.
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Authors & Contributors
- Lauren Weisberger (Author)
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