Pounding the Pavement
Jennifer van der Kwast, . . Broadway, $18.95 (280pp) ISBN 978-0-7679-1953-1
Van der Kwast casts a deliciously jaded eye on working—and not working—in the media industry in her likable debut. Her beset heroine, Sarah, joins her chick-lit sisters as another smart-cookie neurotic at the mercy of manic Manhattan life, low on cash and middling on morale. After Sarah's film company tanked, she bummed through a few idle months; now she's landed a temp gig at a production company, but she still has to make nice to her spoiled ex-boss, who's safely ensconced in another company and exploiting Sarah's brainpower for her own benefit. Should Sarah give it all up and move to Colorado to write for
Reviewed on: 06/06/2005
Genre: Fiction
Paperback - 288 pages - 978-0-7679-1954-8
Peanut Press/Palm Reader - 177 pages - 978-0-7679-2163-3