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Mergers and acquisitions : or, everything I know about love I learned on the wedding pages : a memoir by Cate Doty [Doty, Cate] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
A compulsively readable behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the weddings section of the New York Times --the good, bad, and just plain weird--through the eyes of a young reporter just as she's falling in love herself. Growing up in the south, where tradition reigns supreme, Cate Doty thought about weddings . . . a lot. She catered for them, she attended many, she imagined her own. So, when she moved to New York City in pursuit of love--and to write for The New York Times --she finds her natural home in the wedding section, a first step to her own happily-ever-after, surely. Soon Cate is thrown into the cutthroat world of the metropolitan society pages, experiencing the lengths couples go to have their announcements accepted and the lengths the writers go in fact-checking their stories; the surprising, status-signaling details that matter most to brides and grooms; and the politics of the paper at a time of vast cultural and industry changes. Reporting weekly on couples whose relationships seem enviable--or eye-roll worthy--and dealing with WASPy grandparents and last-minute snafus, Cate is surrounded by love, or what we're told to believe is love. But when she star
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- Author
- Cate Doty [Doty, Cate]
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780593190456
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Romance, Memoir, Sociology