The First Assistant: A Continuing Tale from Behind the Hollywood Curtain

by Clare Naylor, Mimi Hare

Overview

For readers of The Devil Wears Prada and The Nanny Diaries, the further fortunes of everyone's favorite assistant as she struggles to keep her footing on Hollywood's slippery slope

In the bestselling The Second Assistant, readers fell in love with smart, witty East Coast girl Elizabeth Miller. Now that Lizzie has been promoted, can she still keep her pumps firmly on the ground in the city of stars? With a viperish subordinate after her job, the world's hottest teen starlet to keep out of trouble and a boyfriend on location with a beautiful actress, she certainly has her hands full.

The satire is sharper than ever as Naylor and Hare take another wry and hilarious look at the wheeling, dealing, schmoozing, and snubbing that make Hollywood the cutthroat capital of the world. The First Assistant is a lesson in how to survive in a town where tonight's Oscar frock is tomorrow's laughing stock.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101213438
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/24/2007
Series:	Lizzie Miller
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	895,749
File size:	951 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Clare Naylor is the author of several novels, including Love: A User’s Guide and Catching Alice.

Mimi Hare was, at twenty-three years old, the director of development for a Hollywood production company, where she worked on such feature films as Jerry Maguire and As Good as It Gets.

Editorial Reviews

This story of a power agent's lowly second assistant has a lot of heart to go along with its smarts.
— Newsweek

Malcolm Jones

Make sure it is at the very top of your beach bag.

Chicago Tribune

Your perfect spring fling ... more fun than stargazing at Spago.

People

A high-spirited sprint.

New York Times Book Review

[A] wicked romp.

Us Weekly

Second Assistant Lizzie gets promoted. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Praise for The Second Assistant

"[A] high-spirited sprint."—New York Times
"[A] wicked romp."—US Weekly
"Make sure it is at the top of your beach bag."—Chicago Tribune

From the Publisher

Lizzie Miller, a sort of Bridget Jones in Hollywood, is first assistant to the head of a major talent agency. She also has a famous director boyfriend, a second assistant who behaves like a tarantula, and a pal who cheated her out of producer credit on a movie she helped him set up. He gives the credit back, though, when an early screening goes badly and he wants to share the blame. There is something oddly low-energy about Shelly Frasier's reading, though she is thoroughly adept and the story itself is a fairy tale comic romp. Frasier's Lizzie is a loveable goofball, and even her libertine but loyal teen screen diva, Emerald, charms. It's all daft, but a lot of fun. B.G. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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