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| author = Lauren Weisberger
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| genre = roman à clef
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| followed by = Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns
| publication date = February 6, 2003
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'''''The Devil Wears Prada''''' is a 2003 novel by Laura Weisberger. It was allegedly based on her experiences working at ''Vogue'' for Anna Wintour.
Andy Sachs is a college graduate not in a hurry to find a job, though hoping one day to work at the ''New Yorker'' to write great fiction and nonfiction. After a stint of food poisoning while traveling, Andy spends a few weeks recuperating at home, and then a few weeks kipping on her best friend Lily's couch. When Lily gets tired of Andy moping around her apartment all day, Andy goes around New York dropping off her resumes and cover letters. One place she's never heard of, ''Runway'' magazine, reaches out: editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly needs a new junior assistant to support her senior assistant Emily. Andy figures that should be okay, and it's a job that "a million girls would die for" according to everyone she meets at ''Runway''. How hard could it be?
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Miranda Priestly is a [[Mean Boss]] and super entitled; she gives vague orders and expects her staff to fulfill them to the finest detail. She can't even get Andrea's name right, referring to her as "Emily" most of the time. Yet if Andy sticks out the 14-hour workdays, the 4 AM wake-ups and the surprise events, she can work wherever she wants. If only she could keep regular date nights with her boyfriend Alex, and figure out why Lily has developed a drinking problem.
The [[The Devil Wears Prada (film)|film adaptation]] would soon follow in 2005, and two more sequels would as well: ''[[Revenge Wears Prada]]'' about Andy and Emily running a bridal magazine ten years later; and ''[[When Life Gives You Lululemons]]'', about Emily helping a client whose politician husband frames her for a DUI and takes away her stepson.
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* [[We All Live in America]]: The English Miranda is described as leaving high school in London at seventeen, three months short of graduation. In the UK, students go to secondary school, and leave at sixteen without graduating. Her siblings also slipped her 'bills' when they could afford it.
* [[You! Get Me Coffee!]]: Coffee is actually the ''easiest'' task that Andy has, and she wishes that it weren't. Miranda always demands the same latte with two raw sugars from Starbucks, rather than the free coffee from the break-room. Andy notes that at least there is Starbucks practically everywhere, and the managers are reasonable if she explains her boss is very impatient and demanding; trying to find a furniture store without knowing the name or address is ''much'' harder.
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[[Category:Chick Lit]]
[[Category:Literature of the 2000s]]
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