{"product_id":"the-devil-wears-prada-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Devil Wears Prada (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWEISBERGER, Lauren.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Devil Wears Prada.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full red leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate pasted to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Doubleday, 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLauren Weisberger (b. 1977) graduated from Cornell University in 1999 and went directly to work as a personal assistant to Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e — a position she held for approximately a year before moving on to \u003cem\u003eDepartures\u003c\/em\u003e magazine and then to writing. \u003cem\u003eThe Devil Wears Prada\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2003, was her first novel. It spent six months on the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller list, was translated into forty languages, and was adapted into a film in 2006 — directed by David Frankel, starring Meryl Streep as the fearsome Miranda Priestly and Anne Hathaway as her hapless assistant, grossing USD $326 million worldwide. Weisberger's books have sold more than thirteen million copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel is a roman à clef — a fiction whose architecture and characterisation are drawn so directly from life that the original of every principal figure is immediately legible to anyone with passing knowledge of the American fashion industry. Miranda Priestly is Anna Wintour; the \u003cem\u003eRunway\u003c\/em\u003e magazine is \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e; and Andrea Sachs, the narrator, is a fictionalised version of Weisberger herself. The premise is classic comedy of manners: an intelligent young woman from outside the charmed circle enters it, discovers that its values are entirely different from anything she has been prepared for, and must decide whether the access and glamour are worth the debasement required to obtain them. Weisberger renders the world of high fashion with the precision of genuine insider knowledge — the brands, the hierarchies, the particular cruelties of a workplace organised entirely around the whims of a single supremely powerful woman — and with a comedy that is funnier for being rooted in experience rather than imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel's cultural afterlife has been substantial. Miranda Priestly as portrayed by Meryl Streep — cold, brilliant, and devastating in a single raised eyebrow — has become one of the most cited examples of screen villainy of the twenty-first century. The source novel retains its own audience entirely independent of the film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good. \u003c\/strong\u003eSome loss to cover gilt; very faint spotting to edge gilt. Contents otherwise fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000609\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lauren Weisberger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49194252632307,"sku":"1110002993374","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_8060e076-da63-4f89-af04-84d5ba484aee.png?v=1780466287","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-devil-wears-prada-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}