Searching for Grace Kelly - Paperback

by Michael Callahan (Author)

"A gem of a story" (Laura Moriarty) about the famed Barbizon Hotel in which three spirited young women form an unlikely friendship and come of age in 1955 New York.

For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York's Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate, Dolly, comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. And then there's Vivian, a brash British bombshell with a disregard for the hotel's rules.

Together, the girls embark on a journey of discovery that will take them from the penthouse apartments of Park Avenue to the Beat scene of Greenwich Village to Atlantic City's Steel Pier--and into the arms of very different men who will alter their lives forever.

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This tale of big dreams, drop-dead glamour, and fragile hearts will have you turning pages late into the night. A timeless story inventively setat that midcentury moment in New York City when what it meant to be a woman began to change in ways great and small. Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black
"A fascinating joyride through 1955 Manhattan, Searching for Grace Kelly is the Mad Men of the world of the Barbizon." Lynn Cullen, author of Mrs. Poe
For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York s Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate, Dolly, comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. Vivian, a brash British bombshell with a disregard for the hotel s rules, rounds out the trio of friends. Together, the girls embark on a journey of discovery that will take them from the penthouse apartments of Park Avenue to the Beat scene of Greenwich Village to Atlantic City s Steel Pier and into the arms of very different men who will alter their lives forever.
"Reading Searching for Grace Kelly is like watching your favorite old Hollywood movie, filled with colorful characters, funny moments, tender scenes, and plenty of intrigue." John Searles, author of Help for the Haunted
Callahan recreates the dazzle of New York in the 1950s, but he also captures something much more subtle and elusive: the feeling of the era, and the sense of how people thought about the world and each other. It's a pitch-perfect novel." Roberta Rich, author of Midwife of Venice
[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] Michael Callahan is a contributing editor at Vanity Fairand a former deputy editor of Town & Country and Marie Claire. This is his first novel.
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Author Biography

Michael Callahan is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former deputy editor at Town & Country and Marie Claire. His articles have been published in more than two dozen national magazines, including Men's Health, Real Simple, Vibe, and Good Housekeeping. Searching for Grace Kelly is his first novel.