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Search - A Lady's Guide to Selling Out: A Novel

A Lady's Guide to Selling Out A Novel
Author: Sally Franson

A brilliant young woman navigates a tricky twenty-first-century career?and the trickier question of who she wants to be?in this savagely wise debut novel in the tradition of The Devil Wears Prada. — Casey Pendergast is losing her way. Once a book-loving English major, Casey lands a job at a top ad agency that highly values her ability to tell a g... more »ood story. Her best friend thinks she?s a sellout, but Casey tells herself that she?s just paying the bills?and she can?t help that she has champagne taste.

When her hard-to-please boss assigns her to a top-secret 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, she?s shocked at how quickly they compromise their integrity: A short-story writer leaves academia to craft campaigns for a plus-size clothing chain, a reclusive nature writer signs away her life?s 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 year?s biggest book festival rolls around in Las Vegas, it will take every ounce of Casey?s moxie to undo the damage?and, hopefully, save her own soul.

Told in an unforgettable voice, with razor-sharp observations about everything from feminism to pop culture to social media, A Lady?s Guide to Selling Out is the story of a young woman untangling the contradictions of our era and trying to escape the rat race?by any means necessary.

Advance praise for A Lady?s Guide to Selling Out

?Truly beautifully observed, A Lady?s Guide to Selling Out is a gorgeous treat. Sally Franson?s voice is addictive: whip-smart, biting, and clever. I kept pausing to reread parts of it with a huge smile on my face.??Jane Green, author of Summer Secrets

?Perfectly captures the glamorous highs and hilarious lows of the cutthroat world of new advertising?the Wild West of our time. Casey Pendergast is an unforgettable heroine, a feminist Don Draper for our age, navigating the bizarre ways in which art and commerce intersect. Sally Franson?s debut is exhilarating, terrifying, and totally addictive.??Lucy Sykes, author of Fitness Junkie

?If Jane Austen?s Emma and Dorothy Parker had a three-way with David Copperfield (not the magician), Casey Pendergast would be their wisecracking, heartbroken love child.??Amy Bloom, author of Away

ISBN-13: 9780399592034
ISBN-10: 0399592032
Publication Date: 4/10/2018
Pages: 288
Rating:

Currently 4/5 Stars.

4 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: The Dial Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> Humor & Satire >> Humorous
Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Humor
Literature & Fiction >> Women's Fiction >> Contemporary
Romance >> Romantic Comedy

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