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New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small Midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands a job working for the first female editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown. For Alice, who wants to be a photographer, it seems like the perfect foot in the door, but nothing could have prepared her for the world she enters.

Quand "Mad Men" rencontre "Le Diable s'habille en Prada". Ode à la féminité et à l'affirmation de soi, un roman d'apprentissage inspirant et savoureux qui rend hommage à l'une des icônes féministes les plus fantasques et les plus glamour du XXe siècle. En acceptant le poste de secrétaire de la toute nouvelle rédac' chef de "Cosmopolitan", Alice n'imaginait pas qu'elle allait faire la rencontre de sa vie. Petite provinciale de vingt et un ans tout juste débarquée de son Ohio natal, elle se retrouve ainsi face à une figure du New York des sixties.

1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, women are valued by their pedigree, dowry, and, most importantly, connections. They have few rights and even less independence - what they do have is society. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor - the Mrs. Astor.