Summer at Tiffany (Audible Audio Edition) Marjorie Hart Julia Whelan HarperAudio Books
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Do you remember the best summer of your life?
New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor - a diamond-filled day job replete with Tiffany blue shirtwaist dresses from Bonwit Teller's - and the envy of all their friends.
Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed elbows with the rich and famous; pinched pennies to eat at the Automat; experienced nightlife at La Martinique; and danced away their weekends with dashing midshipmen. Between being dazzled by Judy Garland's honeymoon visit to Tiffany, celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, and mingling with Caf society, she fell in love, learned unforgettable lessons, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us.
Summer at Tiffany (Audible Audio Edition) Marjorie Hart Julia Whelan HarperAudio Books
I love to read the stories of everyday people. I think history is made up not just of the big picture moments, but of the little moments as well. I noticed that someone gave this book a one and complained that it was just some girl's boring story, but I think that misses the point of a book like this. Ms. Hart has given us a view into a past that no longer exists. I loved her use of phrases common at the time, and descriptions of what life was like for two young ladies on their own for the first time (no house mothers!) in the 1940's. I loved their decision to eat toast and drink hot chocolate to make ends meet for the summer and how they would spend their nickles at the Automat. To me, there is wealth of cultural information here for anyone who wants to see it. All in all, it was a fun read and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in NYC in the 40's.Product details
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Summer at Tiffany (Audible Audio Edition) Marjorie Hart Julia Whelan HarperAudio Books Reviews
I'm a big fan of '40's homefront history. Summer at Tiffany is a nice representation of the era and a delightful read. The world was changing quickly, and this story put two young Midwestern girls in the middle of it all.
Summer .... was a light and
interesting beach read! Take your sunscreen, blanket and the book and be prepared for a delightful afternoon.
Love this memoir!! I've shared my copy with many friends! If you like stories from the '40's and have been/are going to NYC, it's a fun read!
This is a wonderful piece of history combined with a great story about young women having an adventure in New York City. I love the things that get left out of her letters home. It could be fiction as easily as biography. She's a really nice writer. You get a sense of life in a tight-knit Iowa town. I would really like to see more from Ms Hart about life in that area, that era. It's all so different from what kids are living today and at that same time some of the problems are the same. And so rich in history. I'm really not expressing myself well. I will recommend it for my 18 year old daughter who will be off to college in the fall, and to my sister who is a writer and critical of anything sloppily written (she won't have complaints about this one) and to my dad, who lived all of this from a different prospective, having grown up in Washington DC and having spent the war years in Hawaii and the Pacific.
Even if I didn't write the review well, Ms Hart wrote the book beautifully. I started it last night, and didn't get anything else done until I finished it.
Of course being an Iowa girl myself and having a mother and mother-in-law who went to a big city when they were young, I had to read this book. It's a fun look back at small town girls surviving in the big city toward the end of WWII. Nothing too serious here. Jump back to just before the end of WWII. A young Iowa woman on break from college takes off to see the big lights of New York City. With housing out of the way and a new roommate (also from Iowa), the two explore the city and go job hunting. Leads are investigated and strings are pulled with the two getting jobs at one of the biggest jewelry stores in NYC, Tiffany's. See what the two of them encounter both at work and as they spend their days and nights taking all of the city in.
On the surface, this is just a happy little story of a young girl's summer job. I loved the book because it portrays a time that either brings back memories or teaches a bit about the past. Not only the story of how the store was operated in the war years, but how a young woman from the heartland experienced life in the "big city", and how her upbringing influenced her view of her surroundings in one of the most sophisticated cities in the world. As literally an old lady from Pasadena, I was fascinated by the different cultures portrayed in the book, from the tables at 21 to midwest small town life. I experienced the latter briefly as a young teenager and with a good degree of culture shock, so I enjoyed the time travel.
A trip down memory lane for anyone from the World War 'll era. It's surprising just how many details of those days made it into this easy read. Mrs. Hart also captured well the naivete of wholesome youth on the verge of adulthood. It was hardly a surprise to learn that this was an actual recount - no doubt from a carefully kept diary.no
I love to read the stories of everyday people. I think history is made up not just of the big picture moments, but of the little moments as well. I noticed that someone gave this book a one and complained that it was just some girl's boring story, but I think that misses the point of a book like this. Ms. Hart has given us a view into a past that no longer exists. I loved her use of phrases common at the time, and descriptions of what life was like for two young ladies on their own for the first time (no house mothers!) in the 1940's. I loved their decision to eat toast and drink hot chocolate to make ends meet for the summer and how they would spend their nickles at the Automat. To me, there is wealth of cultural information here for anyone who wants to see it. All in all, it was a fun read and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in NYC in the 40's.
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