{"product_id":"9780399592034","title":"A Lady's Guide to Selling Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant young woman navigates a tricky twenty-first-century career—and the trickier question of who she wants to be—in this savagely wise debut novel in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Wears Prada\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCasey Pendergast is losing her way. Once a book-loving English major, Casey lands a job at a top ad agency that highly values her ability to tell a good story. Her best friend, Susan, thinks she’s a sellout, but Casey tells herself that she’s just paying the bills—and she can’t help that she has champagne taste.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her hard-to-please boss assigns her to a top-secret campaign that pairs literary authors with corporations hungry for upmarket cachet, Casey is both excited and skeptical. But as she crisscrosses America, wooing her former idols, she’s shocked at how quickly they compromise their integrity: a short-story writer leaves academia to craft campaigns for a plus-size clothing chain, a reclusive nature writer signs away her life’s work to a manufacturer of granola bars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she falls in love with one of her authors, Casey can no longer ignore her own nagging doubts about the human cost of her success. By the time the year’s biggest book festival rolls around in Las Vegas, it will take every ounce of Casey’s moxie to undo the damage—and, hopefully, save her own soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in an unforgettable voice—plucky and razor-sharp, equal parts feminist and pop culture—\u003ci\u003eA Lady’s Guide to Selling Out\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a young woman untangling the contradictions of our culture, and finding her way out of the rat race by returning to her first love: literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eA Lady’s Guide to Selling Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Lady’s Guide to Selling Out\u003c\/i\u003e perfectly captures the glamorous highs and hilarious lows of the cutthroat world of new advertising—the Wild West of our time. Casey is an unforgettable heroine, a feminist Don Draper for our age, navigating the bizarre ways in which art and commerce intersect.  Sally Franson’s debut is exhilarating, terrifying, and totally addictive.”—\u003cb\u003eLucy Sykes, author of \u003ci\u003eFitness Junkie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In Sally Franson’s smart, funny, and sharp-eyed novel, terrible mistakes are made and, mostly, rectified. A happy ending, a true heart, and a very good and clever time. Perfect.”\u003cb\u003e—Amy Bloom, author of \u003ci\u003eAway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sally Franson’s voice is addictive: whipsmart, biting and clever. I kept pausing to re-read parts of it with a huge smile on my face. Truly beautifully observed.”\u003cb\u003e—Jane Green, author of \u003ci\u003eSummer Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049632743664,"sku":"9780399592034","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780399592034_p0.jpg?v=1763699125","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780399592034","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}