A Working Girl Can't Win - (Modern Library (Paperback)) by Deborah Garrison (Paperback)

About the Book

The surprising national bestseller and "New York Times" Notable Book that "Newsweek" called "a wonderful collection, full of candor, bereft of b.s. It will speak both to women and those hunting for clues to the same."

Review Quotes

"An intense, intelligent and wonderfully sly book of poems that should appeal as much to the general reader as to the poetry devotee."
--The New York Times Book Review

"With their short lines, sneaky rhymes, and casual leaps of metaphor, Garrison's poems have a Dickinsonian intensity, and the Amherst
recluse's air of independent-minded, lightly populated singleness. Many a working girl will recognize herself in the poems' running
heroine, and male readers will part with her company reluctantly."--John Updike

"Wry, sexy, appealing -- with a wonderful lyric candor."--Elle

About the Author

Deborah Garrison was born in Ann Arbor. She was educated at Brown University and New York University. She is now a senior nonfiction editor at The New Yorker, where she has worked since 1986. She and her husband and young daughter live in Montclair, New Jersey.