Searching for Grace Kelly - Softcover

Callahan, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0544313542 ISBN 13: 9780544313545

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2015

Synopsis

“It's a gem of a story.”—Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone

For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York’s Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate, Dolly, comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. Vivian, a brash British bombshell with a disregard for the hotel’s rules, rounds out the trio of friends. Together, the girls embark on a journey of discovery that will take them from the penthouse apartments of Park Avenue to the Beat scene of Greenwich Village to Atlantic City’s Steel Pier — and into the arms of very different men who will alter their lives forever.

 

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From the Back Cover

“This tale of big dreams, drop-dead glamour, and fragile hearts will have you turning pages late into the night. A timeless story inventively set at that midcentury moment in New York City when what it meant to be a woman began to change in ways great and small.”—Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black
"A fascinating joyride through 1955 Manhattan, Searching for Grace Kelly is the Mad Men of the world of the Barbizon."—Lynn Cullen, author of Mrs. Poe
For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York’s Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate, Dolly, comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. Vivian, a brash British bombshell with a disregard for the hotel’s rules, rounds out the trio of friends. Together, the girls embark on a journey of discovery that will take them from the penthouse apartments of Park Avenue to the Beat scene of Greenwich Village to Atlantic City’s Steel Pier — and into the arms of very different men who will alter their lives forever.
"Reading Searching for Grace Kelly is like watching your favorite old Hollywood movie, filled with colorful characters, funny moments, tender scenes, and plenty of intrigue."—John Searles, author of Help for the Haunted
“Callahan recreates the dazzle of New York in the 1950s, but he also captures something much more subtle and elusive: the feeling of the era, and the sense of how people thought about the world and each other. It's a pitch-perfect novel."—Roberta Rich, author of Midwife of Venice
[INSERT AUTHOR  PHOTO] Michael Callahan is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former deputy editor of Town & Country and Marie Claire. This is his first novel.

About the Author

MICHAEL CALLAHAN is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of the novel Searching for Grace Kelly. A former deputy editor at Town & Country and Marie Claire, he has written for more than two dozen national and international publications, including ELLE, Departures, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Hollywood Reporter, and the New York Times. He lives in Philadelphia.   

Edition details

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0544313542
• ISBN 13: 9780544313545
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288