The Devil Wears Prada
Revenge Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger
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The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger
Dedicated to the only three
people alive who genuinely believe it rivals War and Peace:
my mother, Cheryl, the mom ‘a million girls would die for’;
my father, Steve, who is handsome, witty, brilliant, and talented, and who insisted on writing his own dedication;
my phenomenal sister, Dana, their favorite (until I wrote a book).
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN 1854
The light hadn’t even officially turned green at the intersection of 17th and Broadway before an army of overconfident yellow cabs roared past the tiny deathtrap I was attempting to navigate around the city streets. Clutch, gas, shift (neutral to first? Or first to second?), release clutch, I repeated over and over in my head, the mantra offering little comfort and even less direction amid the screeching midday traffic. The little car bucked wildly twice before it lurched forward through the intersection. My heart flip-flopped in my chest. Without warning, the lurching evened out and I began to pick up speed. Lots of speed. I glanced down to confirm visually that I was only in second gear, but the rear end of a cab loomed so large in the windshield that I could do nothing but jam my foot on the brake pedal so hard that my heel snapped off. Shit! Another pair of seven-hundred-dollar