Summer at Tiffany LP - Large Print by Marjorie Hart (Paperback)

About the Book

"Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan.... [She makes] the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and contemporary."--USA Today "[A] glorious once upon a time fairytale come true....I loved every moment!" --Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine A memoir acclaimed as "reminiscent of The Best of Everything and Breakfast at Tiffany's" (BookPage), Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart is the true story of two best friends experiencing the time of their lives in New York City during the summer of 1945. The Cleveland Plain Dealer raves, "Hart writes about that stylish summer with verve, recollecting with a touching purity a magical summer in Manhattan, seen through the eyes of two 21-year-olds, just as the end of World War II approached."

Book Synopsis

"Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan.... [She makes] the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and contemporary."

--USA Today

"[A] glorious once upon a time fairytale come true....I loved every moment!"
--Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine

A memoir acclaimed as "reminiscent of The Best of Everything and Breakfast at Tiffany's" (BookPage), Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart is the true story of two best friends experiencing the time of their lives in New York City during the summer of 1945. The Cleveland Plain Dealer raves, "Hart writes about that stylish summer with verve, recollecting with a touching purity a magical summer in Manhattan, seen through the eyes of two 21-year-olds, just as the end of World War II approached."

From the Back Cover

Do you remember the best summer of your life?

New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and Marty Garrett arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor.

Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, pinched pennies to eat at the Automat, and danced away their weekends with dashing midshipmen. Between being dazzled by Judy Garland's honeymoon visit to Tiffany, celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, and mingling with Café society, she fell in love, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us.

Review Quotes

"Charming and fun...reminiscent of The Best of Everything and Breakfast at Tiffany's." - BookPage
"A charming story of a charmed summer...I didn't want Marjorie Hart's effervescent memoir to end." - Emily Giffin, author of Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof
"Call this honey-dipped memoir the distaff side of the Greatest Generation...The biggest surprise of the memoir is Hart's ability to make the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and contemporary...Neither sentimental nor saccharine, this book offers insights into the women who lived through World War II. It's a perfect Mother's Day gift." - USA Today
"THE IT LIST: It was the color of the Tiffany blue book jacket that called to us when we recently came upon the book Summer at Tiffany. But the content and charm of the story inside won us over completely. Here's a memoir about a special summer in New York--the summer of 1945--when Marjorie Hart and her friend Marty Garrett took the train from Iowa and ended up working as pages at the vaunted Fifth Avenue jewelry store. Hart writes about that stylish summer with verve, recollecting with a touching purity a magical summer in Manhattan, seen through the eyes of two 21-year-olds, just as the end of World War II approached." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Hart writes about that stylish summer with verve, recollecting with a touching purity a magical summer in Manhattan." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"This old alum (and I do mean old!) really enjoyed Summer at Tiffany. Although Walter Hoving hired me as of April Fools Day in 1956, I lived in New York during much of the war. In reading your book, precious memories swept over me, joyfully! I'm looking down as I type this at my Schlumberger wedding ring. Thank you for writing this delightful memoir." - Letitia Baldrige, Director, Public Relations, Tiffany & Co. (1956-1961), Social Secretary and Chief of Staff for Jacqueline Kennedy (1961-1963), and author of 25 books on the subjects of entertaining, design, and manners
"This warm account of more innocent times makes an unspoken comparison with the way we live now. A fond backwardglance." - Kirkus Reviews
"In this glorious once upon a time fairytale come true, two beautiful college debs from Iowa make it to New York City, end up working at Tiffany's and living the dream of every career girl of the 1940's Marjorie Hart's charming and delicious account of her most memorable summer captures a time when women had moxie, wore proper hats and gloves and burned with ambition to make it in the big city. I loved every moment!" - Adriana Trigiani, author of Lucia Lucia and the Big Stone Gap series
"Remarkably, this winsome memoir was written 60 years after that giddy summer spent pinching pennies and dreaming of diamonds, yet Hart's infectious vivacity resonates with a madcap immediacy, delectably capturing the city's heady vibrancy and a young girl's guileless enchantment." - Booklist
"Hart's infectious vivacity resonates with a madcap immediacy, delectably capturing the city's heady vibrancy and a young girl's guileless enchantment." - Booklist
"What do you imagine might be the most memorable summer of your life? Do you think it's happened yet? - San Diego City Beat
"Acharming story of a charmed summer in an era gone by. I didn't want Marjorie Hart's effervescent memoir to end." - Emily Giffin, author of Baby Proof, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue
"This book offers insights into the women who lived through World War II. It's a perfect Mother's Day gift." - USA Today
"Summer at Tiffany should be read for two reasons: partly because it's just plain readable fun, and partly because it's a quaint curio-cabinet piece, a book so much in the style of those midcentury careergirl-on-the-town frolics that filled young women's bookshelves in the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s that you'll need to glance up from the page periodically to reassure yourself that you're still in 2007. Remember those stories? They always featured a plucky heroine (the word "gumption" came up a lot) out in the wide world looking for respectable work and romantic love and finding both, by tale's end, all the while experiencing the thrills of city- or office-life, winning friends, and bravely tackling dilemmas no more serious than how to afford a coveted new dress or cosmetic. That's what you get here, curiously untouched by the passage of time, and all wrapped up in a Tiffany blue package with a bow on top. The company should put this book on prominent display in its stores, for heaven's sake -- it's that much of a paean to the Tiffany glory days.... You can't help liking Marjorie in this book, of course, and rooting for her. Her memoir makes for light-as-souffle reading, no doubt; but it nonetheless delights in its sheer joie de vivre about this one amazing summer, even 60-odd years later. You go, girls." - Buffalo News
"The (Tiffany) company should put this book on prominent display, for heaven's sake--it's that much of a paean." - Buffalo News