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White Collar Girl
Renée Rosen
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Penguin
, 2015-11-03
主題
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Biographical
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0698192567
9780698192560
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=R9VJBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The latest novel from the bestselling author of
Dollface
and
What the Lady Wants
takes us deep into the tumultuous world of 1950s Chicago where a female journalist struggles with the heavy price of ambition...
Every second of every day, something is happening. There’s a story out there buried in the muck, and Jordan Walsh, coming from a family of esteemed reporters, wants to be the one to dig it up. But it’s 1955, and the men who dominate the city room of the Chicago Tribune have no interest in making room for a female cub reporter. Instead Jordan is relegated to society news, reporting on Marilyn Monroe sightings at the Pump Room and interviewing secretaries for the
White Collar Girl
column.
Even with her journalistic legacy and connections to luminaries like Mike Royko, Nelson Algren, and Ernest Hemingway, Jordan struggles to be taken seriously. Of course, that all changes the moment she establishes a secret source inside Mayor Daley’s office and gets her hands on some confidential information. Now careers and lives are hanging on Jordan’s every word. But if she succeeds in landing her stories on the front page, there’s no guarantee she’ll remain above the fold.…