A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out: A Novel.
With “components of The Bold Type, Mad Men, and The Devil Wears Prada” (Entetainment Weekly), a young lady explores a precarious twenty-first-century profession—and the trickier inquiry of who she needs to be—in this viciously astute presentation novel
Casey Pendergast is losing her direction. Once a book-cherishing English major, Casey lands a vocation at a best promotion organization that exceedingly esteems her capacity to recount a decent story. Her closest companion believes she’s a sellout, yet Casey reveals to herself that she’s simply paying the bills—and she can’t help that she has champagne taste.
At the point when her difficult to-please manager doles out her to a best mystery battle that sets abstract creators with enterprises hungry for upmarket cachet, Casey is both energized and distrustful. Be that as it may, as she bungles America, charming her previous symbols, she’s stunned at how rapidly they trade off their uprightness: A short-story essayist leaves the scholarly community to create crusades for a larger size dress chain, a hermitic nature author transfers ownership of her all consuming purpose to a producer of granola bars.
When she begins to look all starry eyed at one of her creators, Casey can never again overlook her own pestering questions about the human cost of her prosperity. When the year’s greatest book celebration moves around in Las Vegas, it will take each ounce of Casey’s moxie to fix the harm—and, ideally, spare her own spirit.
Told in a remarkable voice, with dangerously sharp perceptions about everything from women’s liberation to popular culture to online networking, A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out is the tale of a young lady unraveling the inconsistencies of our period and attempting to get away from the rodent race—by any methods important.
Advance adulate for A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out
“Bitingly amusing . . . [Sally] Franson’s smart introduction agilely sticks the high-flying universe of publicizing and sentiment in the period of online networking. . . . Franson’s powerfully defective courageous woman stands her ground as she endeavors to discover genuineness, which means, and even love in a requesting world, bringing about an addictive, idealist novel.”— Publishers Weekly
“A brave champion loses herself in a vortex of current endeavoring in this introduction novel. . . . Desire the clever portrayal, remain for the tornado plot, thrive in the mocking gleam.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A wry, attentive interpretation of profession achievement and ambition.”—New York Post
“A book darling is torn between a cushy gig and . . . indeed, her spirit, basically.”—Cosmopolitan
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