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Workhorse

內容簡介

內容簡介 一幅令人驚嘆的城市肖像，描繪紐約在步入令人眩暈的新時代前夕的景象；以及一位年輕女子，為了打入紐約時尚精英的稀有世界，似乎願意付出一切的故事。❖ 血統，決定一切。 ❖📍 紐約，2001年。編輯助理克洛達．「克洛」．哈蒙最大的夢想，就是在全球最負盛名的時尚雜誌扶搖直上。但有一個致命問題：她缺乏「正統血統」。在充滿美麗、富有、擁有無數人脈的「秀馬」世界裡，克洛只是一隻默默耕耘的「勞馬」，命運似乎永遠無法改變。直到她遇見哈利．伍德——一位夢想建立自媒體帝國的記者。他可能是克洛操縱這場遊戲的盟友，也可能是阻礙她登上頂峰的唯一障礙。克洛開始不斷越界，冒著愈發危險的風險，只為成為她夢想中的「重要人物」。然而，在那些借來的名牌服飾與精心修飾的舉止下，克洛究竟是誰？如果我們也與她有同樣的渴望，那我們又是誰？ 《Workhorse》 既辛辣諷刺又令人不安，描繪了一段關於嫉妒與野心的驚人故事，背景是紐約媒體與上流社會最光鮮亮麗的高峰期。An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will seemingly do anything to infiltrate the rarefied world of New York's fashion elite.GOOD BREEDING IS EVERYTHING.New York City, 2001.Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. But there’s just one problem: she doesn’t have the right pedigree. Clo is a ‘workhorse’ in a world of beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected ‘show horses’ and it seems that her fortunes will never change. That is until Clo meets Harry Wood, a reporter with visions of his own media empire and the person who might be Clo’s ally in gaming the system…or is he the only thing standing between Clo and her rightful place at the top?Clo begins to wade across boundaries, taking ever greater and more dangerous risks to become the Important Person she wants to be. But who is Clo under all the borrowed designer clothes and studied manners? And who are we if we share her desires?As wickedly funny as it is darkly unsettling, Workhorse is an astonishing story of envy and ambition, set against the glamour and privilege of media and high society in New York at its height.

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各界推薦 書評「一部犀利、幽默且毫不退縮地審視野心、階級與被低估時的無聲屈辱之作。你不需要曾在時尚界工作，就能欣賞帕爾默對產業的犀利又帶有辛辣幽默的觀察——但作為曾經身在其中的人，我既熱愛也敬佩她的坦率。」★ 可可・梅勒斯（Coco Mellors），《Blue Sisters》暢銷作家「一部狡黠有趣、觀察入微的小說，講述一位年輕女性的野心如何失控。卡羅琳・帕爾默帶領讀者重返2000年代初的光鮮雜誌世界——那時一切美好：報銷帳單、派對、時尚——同時編織出一段關於一位助理為了爬上編輯名單不擇手段的懸疑故事。節奏明快、充滿驚喜又趣味橫生。」★ 艾瑪・羅森布魯姆（Emma Rosenblum），《Bad Summer People》暢銷作家「令人興奮、扣人心弦、極具吸引力，且是對一個已逝的紐約的深刻人類學論述——那是美國資本主義巔峰稍縱即逝的時代：世紀末的放縱與焦慮不安的報銷帳單交織。」★ 馬修・湯瑪斯（Matthew Thomas），《We Are Not Ourselves》暢銷作家「一杯混合懷舊與憂鬱的濃烈雞尾酒，重現雜誌黃金年代的歌劇女主角、現金抽屜與雞毛蒜皮的怨懟。」★ 勞倫・梅克林（Lauren Mechling），《How Could She》作者Review‘A fierce, funny and unflinching examination of ambition, class and the quiet indignities of being underestimated. You certainly don’t need to have worked in fashion to appreciate Palmer’s razor-sharp and deliciously wry observations about the industry – but as someone who did, I both adored and applaud her honesty’ Coco Mellors, Sunday Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters'A sly, fun and astutely observed novel about what happens when one young woman's ambition runs amok. Caroline Palmer transports you to the world of glossy magazines in the early 2000s, back when the going was good –the expense accounts, the parties, the fashion – while weaving in a suspenseful story about an assistant who will do anything in her power to move up on the masthead. Propulsive, surprising, and fun.' Emma Rosenblum, bestselling author of Bad Summer People'Thrilling, page-turning, and deeply absorbing and anthropological treatise on a lost New York at just slightly past the peak of American capitalism – fin de siecle indulgence shackled to an anxious expense account.' Matthew Thomas, New York Times-bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselves'A heady brew of nostalgia and melancholia, resurrecting a magazine yesterworld of prima donnas, cash drawers, and petty grievances.' – Lauren Mechling, author of How Could She

作者介紹

作者介紹 **卡羅琳・帕爾默（Caroline Palmer）**曾任亞馬遜時尚部門編輯、影音與社群媒體總監，任職至2020年。在加入亞馬遜之前，她曾擔任《Vogue.com》編輯七年，文章刊登於《紐約時報》、《LIFE》、《Seventeen Magazine》和《Vogue》等多家媒體。現與丈夫及三名孩子居住於新澤西州蒙特克萊爾。**《Workhorse》**是她的首部小說。About the AuthorCaroline Palmer was the Director of Editorial, Video and Social Media at Amazon Fashion until 2020.Prior to her tenure at Amazon, she spent seven years as the Editor of Vogue.com, and her writing has appeared in various publications, including The New York Times, LIFE, Seventeen Magazine, and Vogue.She lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband and three children. Workhorse is her first novel.

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最佳賣點 : 《Workhorse》 既辛辣諷刺又令人不安，描繪了一段關於嫉妒與野心的驚人故事，背景是紐約媒體與上流社會最光鮮亮麗的高峰期。

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