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The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Algonquin Books
Publication date June 11, 2013
Pages 240
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781616203061
ISBN-10 1616203064
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.60 lbs.
Original list price $14.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine’s eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780226263953 Book cover for 9781616201319
 
from Algonquin Books (June 26, 2012)
9781616201319 | details & prices | 229 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $21.95
About: In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk.
With Maurice S. Friedman | Revised edition from Univ of Chicago Pr (June 1, 1970); titled "Problematic Rebel: Melville, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus"
9780226263953 | details & prices | List price $18.00
This edition also contains Problematic Rebel: Melville, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus
About: Explores the modern image of man through critical analyses of the philosophical and psychological questions contained in major literary works
Paperback
Book cover for 9781616203061
 
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Reprint edition from Algonquin Books (June 11, 2013)
9781616203061 | details & prices | 240 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.95
About: In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk.
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781611747812
 
Unabridged edition from Highbridge Co (June 26, 2012)
9781611747812 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy E.

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