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Receptionist
Janet Groth
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Description for Receptionist
In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn't expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine’s eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of ... Read more
In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine’s eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of ... Read more
Product Details
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781616203061
SKU
V9781616203061
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-99
About Janet Groth
Janet Groth, Emeritus Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, has also taught at Vassar, Brooklyn College, the University of Cincinnati, and Columbia. She was a Fulbright lecturer in Norway and a visiting fellow at Yale and is the author of Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time (for which she won the NEMLA Book ... Read more
Reviews for Receptionist
"Revelatory... deeply reflective... Groth chronicles the many dazzling personalities whose lives touched, and moved, hers." (Publishers Weekly)"