Searching for Grace Kelly

Name: Searching for Grace Kelly
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Callahan
ISBN: 9781942248309

Author: Michael Callahan

Narrator: Kristin Kalbli

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 02/02/2015

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York's Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate, Dolly, comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. Vivian, a brash British bombshell with a disregard for the hotel's rules, rounds out the trio of friends. Together, the girls embark on a journey of discovery that will take them from the penthouse apartments of Park Avenue to the Beat scene of Greenwich Village to Atlantic City's Steel Pier — and into the arms of very different men who will alter their lives forever.

About Michael Callahan

Michael Callahan is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Searching for Grace Kelly and The Night She Won Miss America, as well as a coffee-table history of the famed Musso & Frank Grill restaurant in Hollywood. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, his work has been published in Esquire, Town & Country, and the New York Times, among others. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly in Bookland on April 30, 2015

A very good depiction of three completely different women who become unlikely friends, making their way through 1950's New York. Very enjoyable. Liked the women & their stories, hearing about the famous Barbizon Hotel, and how the 1950's were changing & molding women.......more

Goodreads review by Christina on March 05, 2016

Laura Dixon, a debutante and college student from Connecticut, comes to New York City for an summer internship with Mademoiselle magazine for their college issue. The year is 1955 and if you are a female in the city, you want to stay at the famous Barbizon Hotel for Women which is pretty much like a......more

Goodreads review by Laura on March 28, 2017

Urgh. Okay. Let's see if I can compile my thoughts here.... So, first off, the plot is pretty solid; Vivian and Dolly's storylines were good, but sparse and I think it would have been a lot better if they had been given more attention. Laura's storyline was *the* most predictable thing EVER and to to......more

Goodreads review by Scarlett on June 18, 2016

Ovo je jedna od najboljih prevara u naslovu na koje sam do sada naišla. Nisu čak ni prevodioci krivi, original se zove ''Searching For Grace Kelly'', brzo čitanje zadnje korice takođe vam ne kaže istinu i onda prevari ljubitelje fiktivnih biografija koje ne mrzi da provedu nekoliko sati u magacinu n......more

Goodreads review by Ellie on January 02, 2018

In 1950s NYC three women meet in a hotel exclusively for ladies. These ladies are in NYC for various employment in publishing agencies/houses, secretarial schools etc. The three are there for employment but to also escape their strict upbringings, for new experiences and to find love. Each do meet s......more