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A Lady's Guide to Selling Out: A Novel,Used
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With elements of The Bold Type, Mad Men, and The Devil Wears Prada (Entetainment Weekly), a young woman navigates a tricky twentyfirstcentury careerand the trickier question of who she wants to bein this savagely wise debut novelCasey Pendergast is losing her way. Once a bookloving English major, Casey lands a job at a top ad agency that highly values her ability to tell a good story. Her best friend thinks shes a sellout, but Casey tells herself that shes just paying the billsand she cant help that she has champagne taste.When her hardtoplease boss assigns her to a topsecret campaign that pairs literary authors with corporations hungry for upmarket cachet, Casey is both excited and skeptical. But as she crisscrosses America, wooing her former idols, shes shocked at how quickly they compromise their integrity: A shortstory writer leaves academia to craft campaigns for a plussize clothing chain, a reclusive nature writer signs away her lifes work to a manufacturer of granola bars.When she falls in love with one of her authors, Casey can no longer ignore her own nagging doubts about the human cost of her success. By the time the years biggest book festival rolls around in Las Vegas, it will take every ounce of Caseys moxie to undo the damageand, hopefully, save her own soul.Told in an unforgettable voice, with razorsharp observations about everything from feminism to pop culture to social media, A Ladys Guide to Selling Out is the story of a young woman untangling the contradictions of our era and trying to escape the rat raceby any means necessary.Praise for A Ladys Guide to Selling OutBitingly funny . . . [Sally] Fransons snappy debut nimbly skewers the highflying world of advertising and romance in the age of social media. . . . Fransons irresistibly flawed heroine holds her own as she strives to find honesty, meaning, and even love in a demanding world, resulting in an addictive, escapist novel.Publishers WeeklyA highspirited heroine loses herself in a vortex of modern striving in this debut novel. . . . Come for the hilarious narration, stay for the whirlwind plot, luxuriate in the satirical gleam.Kirkus ReviewsA wry, observant take on career success and ambition.New York PostA book lover is torn between a cushy gig and . . . well, her soul, basically.Cosmopolitan
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