Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

I have a "thing" for books that had been made into a movie. May be because of the very obvious logic that "It has been made into a movie; so it should be good". It will be a good idea to add a tag for such books.

Andrea Sachs, recently graduated with a degree in English aspires to be a writer in some place like "The New Yorker". But she ends up in a fashion magazine as the editor-in chief's personal assistant. Her boss, Miranda Priestly, is a powerful lady in the fashion industry and Andrea's job is supposed to be one "million girls will die for".  But, an alien to fashion and fashion industry, Andrea finds it uncomfortable in her new environment, surrounded by superskinny colleagues in branded clothes. Adding to her misery is her boss, Miranda Priestly, who expects her assistants to be at her service 24X7, sometimes taking care of her laundry and sometimes hiring a new nanny for her kids. Andrea, anyhow, wants to keep this job because continuing in this job for at least a year will make her chances to get into "The New Yorker" bright, because of Miranda's contacts in Magazine publishing. But she has to struggle to keep her identity in the new place as well as to keep her personal life from falling apart. Will she be able to do that? 

The highlight of this book will ofcourse be fashion. Pages are dedicated to explaining the life in fashion magazine publishing.(The character of Miranda Priestly is rumoured to be  based on Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue. Interestingly, Lauren Weisberger was her personal assistant) The storyline easily blends with this. A negative will be that the middle chapters do not add anything to the story but keeps on stressing what is said in the initial chapters. You can easily read only the first and last two chapters without missing much.

Read this if you feel like reading something light. 3 out of 5.

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