Substitute names from today - tabloid celebrities, annoying heiresses with their own clothing lines, political appointees with a keen nose for protocol - and the book is more textbook than novel. A sharp portrait of the shifting rules of American society at the time, it is also timeless. Though she sacrifices a husband and a child to her ambition, no rank she achieves is quite good enough, and the novel ends with her absolute frustration in discovering that she will never be an ambassador's wife.
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