The Devil wears Prada

by Lauren Weisberger

432 pages

English language

Published Dec. 7, 2006 by Anchor Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-27555-4
OCLC Number:: 70117771

(40 reviews)

Andrea Sachs is the personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine. As can be imagined, the relationship of Ms. Priestly to Ms. Sachs is one of unmitigated oppression, enormous egoism, and blatant disregard for human feeling. Andrea is given a series of increasingly degrading and mind-bogglingly menial tasks, and must complete all of them, around the clock, without complaint. What induces Andrea to suffer this treatment? It is the dangled promise that a recommendation from Miranda will get Andrea a top job at any magazine of her choosing. But as her burden increases, she realizes that she may have made a deal with the devil, and that the price of a future job may be her very soul.

2 editions

Jack 💜 reviewed The Devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Review of 'The Devil wears Prada' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Oh my god I can't do it. I tried. I really did, but this is just the absolute pits. I haven't read anything this utterly horrendous, this utterly 'white' and this utterly shallow in a long, long time.

This book is in first person featuring one of the most single-handedly unlikeable characters I've ever had to be stuck with. I hate Andrea. I hate her privileged whining and condescending descriptions of people who are different from herself. I hate how she 'can't tell her Indian roommates apart hurr hurt", how she sits "Indian-style", etc etc.

I managed 103 pages. That's all I can do. I can't do anymore.

Zéro Janvier reviewed The Devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Review of 'The Devil wears Prada' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Le fameux roman sur une Anna Wintour pseudo-fictive, qui a a été adapté en film ayant fait un tabac au box-office.

Molly Foust reviewed The Devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Review of 'The Devil wears Prada' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Funny and entertaining, reading this book was akin to enjoying a decent sitcom or watching Bruno on the Ali G show. Fashion aficionados are easy prey, and this caper through their hilariously shallow world of slavish material worship and anorexic neuroticism merits a smile.