BOOK CLUB; THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA BY LAUREN WEISBERGER.


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Book blog day boo yah. As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on The Devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger.

The Devil wears Prada is the story of Andrea Sachs, a recent English Degree graduate of Brown University who moves to NYC with her best friend Lily a grad student at Columbia. Andrea hopes to find a career in publishing and blankets the city with her CV. Andrea believes that if she gets a job in the magazine industry she'll be one step closer to her dream of working for The New Yorker. She gets a surprise interview for Elias-Clarke and ends up hired as a junior assistant for Runway E-I-C Miranda Priestly. People tell her she can have a choice of jobs in the magazine industry if she manages to work for Miranda for a year. As she evolves in her job her relationships outside of it starts to deteriorate. Matters finally come to ahead when Emily the senior assistant gets Mononucleosis (Glandular fever) and Andy is taken to Paris instead. In Paris Andy is asked what she wants to do by Miranda who tells her she'll place a few calls once Andy's year is up and even suggests she write a few pieces for runway. Andrea receives a phone call stating her best friend Lily is in a coma due to a drunk driving accident followed by a phone call by Miranda for a ridiculous request. Andrea realises her friends and family are more important than her job and after refusing Miranda's request is publicly fired before telling Miranda “Fuck you Miranda, Fuck you”. Andrea returns home and works on her relationships whilst writing short fiction and plans for her future.

The Devil wears Prada was released on October 6th 2003 by Broadway books. The book attracted initial attention because of the writer Lauren Weisberger's work history with Vogue editor Anna Wintour as her personal assistant. Weisberger has stated in publicity materials that the antagonist Miranda Priestley's demands are a combination of partial fiction and experiences she and her friends had in their first jobs. The book spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list whilst the Reviews were rather mixed (though more good than bad) with a few reviewers citing Wintour as influence for Miranda. The book spawned a sequel Revenge wears Prada: Return of the Devil in 2013 inspired the release of the Movie of the same name in 2006 as of 2017 It was officially announced By Kevin McCollum that a musical version of the Devil wears Prada (A mix of book and film) will be produced. Sir Elton John was announced as composer and Paul Rudnick would write both lyrics and Book (story). The cast and production still has to be announce but is aimed to play on Broadway.

I didn't read the book until a few years after I'd seen the movie and as such It took me a bit of time to acclimate the book Andrea to the movie Andrea that I knew. However the book is reasonably better in my opinion because there were so many more details about the world of runway and what Andy had to do even though the movie holds my heart.

Weisberger was born as the eldest daughter to a school teacher mother and mortgage broker father. Weisberger grew up in conservative Judaism later reform Judaism due to her family being of Jewish decent. She spent her early childhood in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania but moved to Allentown Pennsylvania with her mother and sister Dana after her parent's divorce at 11. Weisberger attended Parkland high getting involved in sports, extra projects and Organisations she graduated in 1995. after gradating from Cornell University in Ithaca New York in 1999 where she was an English major Weisberger travelled around Europe and Asia before returning to New York and being hired to work as an Assistant To Vogue E-I-C Anna Wintour for ten months. Weisberger started working for Departures magazine where she wrote 100 word reviews and became an assistant editor, she also published a 2004 article in Playboy Magazine. Weisberger eventually expressed interest in writing classes and was referred to Charles Salzburg, she started writing the Devil wears Prada around the same time and showed the finished works to Agents at others urging. It was sold within two weeks.

I think Weisberger hit the nail on the head in writing a book close to her experience as an assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Whilst I believe the book is 90% fiction with how harsh and somewhat cruel Miranda, Emily and the clothing world at large could be I also believe Weisberger filled the remaining 10% with some anecdotes of what happened in her job. Whilst The Devil wears Prada and revenge wears Prada are what Weisberger is best known for in the literary world I believe she's still pretty good as a writer and could go far with other written works.

The movie was released on June 22nd 2006 at the LA Film festival by 20th Century Fox then released to cinemas on June 30th. Pre-Production and principal filming happened late in 2005 with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt being hired as Miranda Priestly, Andrea Sachs, Nigel Kipling and Senior assistant Emily Chalton respectively. The film received positive reviews from critics with Streep getting high praise and nominations during award season. Blunt also drew favourable reviews and nominations for her own performance. The film grossed $300 million worldwide and was the 12th highest grossing film in 2006. Many of the fashion designers worried about putting their clothes and accessories in the film but many allowed them to be used in the film making it one of the expensively costumed films in history.

As I've said earlier in this blog I did see the movie before reading the book and as such it definitely holds my heart, Streep as the goddess she is epitomises the perfectionist boss and looks fabulous(as usual), Tucci is a great actor and is absolutely fabulous as Nigel, Blunt is great as Emily her consistent line of “I love my job, I love my job” indicating the stress levels of an assistant was a great touch and Hathaway as Andrea is near perfect and is great as the eyes in on the world of Runway.

And there you have it a decent book for those who love to read. So we'll be leaving this here for today please leave a comment, share with others if you want or not, Don't forget We HAVE PATREON! please consider becoming a Patreon today. Friday is random blog day and remember keep it sensible in the comments all abuse will be tracked and reported to the appropriate people.


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