The Devil Wears Prada
A Novel
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4.2 • 379 Ratings
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Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MUSICAL STARRING VANESSA WILLIAMS • The iconic novel that inspired the hit movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway—a gloriously wicked story about the ultimate Boss from Hell and the deals we make with the devil to get to the top
“The degree to which The Devil Wears Prada has penetrated pop culture needs no explanation.”—Vanity Fair
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child.
Andrea is sorely tested each and every day—and often late into the night—with orders barked over the phone. She puts up with it all by keeping her eyes on the prize: a recommendation from Miranda that will get her a top job at any magazine of her choosing. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether or not it’s worth the price of her soul.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Get ready to spend a year with the fiercest, most fabulous boss from hell. In Lauren Weisberger’s hilarious novel, recent college grad Andrea is hired as an assistant to the terror that is Miranda Priestly, editor in chief of Runway magazine. (Weisberger spent some time at Vogue magazine and lived to tell the tale.) Andrea knows this highly coveted opportunity could help her land her dream job…if she can survive the never-ending barrage of coffee runs, late nights, and icy browbeatings from the ruthless Miranda. Published in 2003, Weisberger’s take on the horrors of paying your dues feels timeless. And now that body-shaming and bullying in the workplace are a bigger part of the public conversation, it packs even more punch. We laughed out loud at the spectacle of adults groveling before Miranda and at Andrea’s scathing internal comebacks to her boss’ outlandish demands. The Devil Wears Prada is a classic underdog story sprinkled with glamour.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Most recent college grads know they have to start at the bottom and work their way up. But not many picture themselves having to pick up their boss's dry cleaning, deliver them hot lattes, land them copies of the newest Harry Potter book before it hits stores and screen potential nannies for their children. Charmingly unfashionable Andrea Sachs, upon graduating from Brown, finds herself in this precarious position: she's an assistant to the most revered and hated woman in fashion, Runway editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly. The self-described "biggest fashion loser to ever hit the scene," Andy takes the job hoping to land at the New Yorker after a year. As the "lowest-paid-but-most-highly-perked assistant in the free world," she soon learns her Nine West loafers won't cut it everyone wears Jimmy Choos or Manolos and that the four years she spent memorizing poems and examining prose will not help her in her new role of "finding, fetching, or faxing" whatever the diabolical Miranda wants, immediately. Life is pretty grim for Andy, but Weisberger, whose stint as Anna Wintour's assistant at Vogue couldn't possibly have anything to do with the novel's inspiration, infuses the narrative with plenty of dead-on assessments of fashion's frivolity and realistic, funny portrayals of life as a peon. Andy's mishaps will undoubtedly elicit laughter from readers, and the story's even got a virtuous little moral at its heart. Weisberger has penned a comic novel that manages to rise to the upper echelons of the chick-lit genre.
Customer Reviews
Unpopular Opinion
The book is better than the movie. I had no idea just how different the two were. Now I find the movie trite. I would have loved to see Andy yell “F#€K YOU” twice to Miranda as the book portrayed Andy’s departure from Runway at the end, but Hollywood couldn’t give us what we wanted and made up junk instead. Why? Too much was made up! C’mon! Everyone wanted to tell Miranda to F off and Andy did! Book better than movie.
Devil Wears Prada
Love this book! It's better then the movie! I wish I would have read this prior to seeing the movie!
The book of my life
This book is definitely one of the reasons why I love NYC, and why I came here to re-invent myself.
I've read it once a year, and I never get tired.