HER BRILLIANT CAREER: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties - Tapa blanda

"Cooke's droll, pressing style is what binds the stories together; no sooner do we embark than we know we will not be disappointed, though every portrait is different, every life depicted complex and, at times, startling."--Barbara Bamberger Scott, Bookreporter.com

"Cooke is one of the outstanding British journalists of her generation."--Sebastian Faulks

"In a series of engaging, gossipy essays, filled with sharp observations, she examines the lives of 10 very different women.... It's clever and amusing, a series of sketches that provide a revealing glimpse into the culture of 1950s Britain."--Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal

"Shines a new light in an elegantly original way into the 1950s.... A very enjoyable and distinctive book."--Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life

"I always thought of British women of the sixties as cultural pioneers, but I had no idea how fascinating and accomplished--how daring and tough--were the women of the decade before. Thank you, Rachel Cooke, for stylishly adding a chapter to this provincial American's personal women's studies curriculum."--Sheila Weller, author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-and the Journey of a Generation

"The stories are insightful and crafted with care.... A satisfying read for anyone interested in narratives about women's lives in the early to mid-20th century."--Library Journal

"Rachel Cooke's Her Brilliant Career is that rare beast: a work of history as utterly enjoyable as it is important. Cooke writes with a novelist's authority, humor, and eye for detail and, in doing so, has crafted a history for the ages."--Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

"Cooke's book provides a sparkling group of portraits that, taken together, cast the '50s in a new and modern light."--Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness

"Engrossing, entertaining and, yes, deliciously gossipy. Just as Eminent Victorians forever changed our view of the Victorian era, Her Brilliant Career demolishes the conventional wisdom of the fifties Woman. I, for one, will never think of this decade in the same way."--Elsa Walsh, author of Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women

"Mad men, move over! Her Brilliant Career is Rachel Cooke's intelligent, informative and gossipy proof that women in the 1950s were doing a lot more than taking dictation, fixing the perfect dry martini, and going nuts in the suburbs."--Francine Prose, author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel