"Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan.... She makes] the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and contemporary."--USA Today " A] glorious once upon a time fairytale come true....I loved every moment " --Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine A memoir acclaimed as "reminiscent of The Best of Everything and Breakfast at Tiffany's" (BookPage), Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart is the true story of two best friends experiencing the time of their lives in New York...
"Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan.... She makes] the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and cont...
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.
Looking back on that magical time in her life, Marjorie takes us back to when she and Marty rubbed elbows with the rich and...
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 fi...