Summer at Tiffany / Marjorie Hart.
At the age of 82, Hart, a professional cellist, recalls 1945, when she and her best friend, Marty, students at the University of Iowa, spent the summer in Manhattan. Failing to obtain work at Lord & Taylor, the pair, self-described as long-limbed, blue-eyed blondes, were hired at Tiffany's the first female floor sales pages, delivering packages to the repair and shipping department, for $20 a week. Hart details their stringent budget ("1. Two nickels for subway. 2. Sandwich at the Automat: 15 cents") and describes, somewhat breathlessly, what a thrill it was to see such luminaries as Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland shop at the fabled store. Her romance with a midshipman, the combat death of her cousin, the news of the dropping of the first atomic bomb and a vivid account of the celebration in Times Square after Japan's surrender convey a sense of the WWII era.
Record details
- ISBN: 0061189529
- ISBN: 9780061189524
- Physical Description: xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | BIO HART (Text) | 36015000622460 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | 381 H (Text) | 39493106325444 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Boonville Community Public Library | 381 HAR (Text) | 40599000725021 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | 381.141 HAR (Text) | 22281500089245 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | B HART (Text) | 640191003533978 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | HART (Text) | 33258005783134 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Lee County Main Library | B/HART (Text) | 33262002804042 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Montgomery County Public Library | 381 H (Text) | 38198000057065 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Mt. Airy Public Library | 381 HAR (Text) | 40599000725039 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Murphy Public Library | 381.141 HAR (Text) | 80605000459916 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
