Summer at Tiffany, Marjorie Hart
Summer at Tiffany, Marjorie Hart
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Summer at Tiffany

Author: Marjorie Hart

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/31/2010

Synopsis

Do you remember the best summer of your life?New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor—a diamond-filled day job replete with Tiffany blue shirtwaist dresses from Bonwit Teller's—and the envy of all their friends.Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed elbows with the rich and famous; pinched pennies to eat at the Automat; experienced nightlife at La Martinique; and danced away their weekends with dashing midshipmen. Between being dazzled by Judy Garland's honeymoon visit to Tiffany, celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, and mingling with Café society, she fell in love, learned unforgettable lessons, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us.

About Marjorie Hart

Marjorie Hart is the former chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the University of San Diego and a professional cellist. She lives in La Mesa, California.

About Julia Whelan

Julia Whelan is a screenwriter, lifelong actor, and award-winning audiobook narrator. She graduated with a degree in English and creative writing from Middlebury College and Oxford University. While she was in England, her flirtation with tea blossomed into a full-blown love affair, culminating in her eventual certification as a tea master. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on February 08, 2011

If you’ve ever wanted a short escape into the innocence and charm of bygone years, this is your book. In 1945, college student Marjorie and her friend have the amazing luck of spending the summer not in dullsville Story City, Iowa, but in the Big Apple! Their miniature apartment is a dream, seeing a......more

Goodreads review by KOMET on March 01, 2023

Summer at Tiffany is a wistful story of Marjorie Hart's reminiscences of the summer of 1945, when she and her best friend and fellow Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sister from the University of Iowa (Martha "Marty" Garrett) traveled to New York City in search of summer jobs and ended up working at Tiffa......more

Goodreads review by Abby ♡ on August 27, 2015

This book was so delightful. Being a vintage and New York City fanatic, this was a magical read. Learning about Tiffany & Co behind the scenes (and in the forties) was so awesome, and the fact that the author and her best friend were the first female employees to work on the sales floor is amazing!......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on April 25, 2023

Oh what a breath of fresh air this book was! I read it in Spring ‘23 sitting in Bryant Park, surrounded by May blossom and the sounds of New York. The colourful descriptions of the scenery and the clothing worn at the time grounded me in the memoir. I have read many novels set in WWII and it was int......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on June 13, 2023

A marvelous memoir about college girl’s summer in the 1940s while working at Tiffany in NYC. Marjorie Hart’s writing style is simple, poignant, funny, and touching. She evokes the elegance and charm of a bygone era and reminds us the power of a good female friendship on the cusp of adulthood. One of......more

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