One Perfect Day
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One Perfect Day by Rebecca Mead
Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry--an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex.Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry--including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program--New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.
REBECCA MEAD has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1997. She has profiled many subjects and has contributed more than two hundred pieces to the Talk of the Town. She is the author of One Perfect Day and My Life in Middlemarch, a New York Times best seller. She has served as a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143113843 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143113844 |
| Title | One Perfect Day |
| Author | Rebecca Mead |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2008-07-29 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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