When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion And as The Good Life

And as The Good Life shows us

I thought I'd left my darkest secrets behind

or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human

compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction

from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion And as The Good LifeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award winning author of The Plaza. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Smithsonian, New York Post, and Financial Times "Ms. Satow's carefully researched book is compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel. She portrays the women with verve; we get a glimpse into their lives, as well