Mergers and acquisitions : or, everything I know about love I learned on the wedding pages / Cate Doty.
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TextPublisher: Australia : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Description: ix, 356 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781460761724; 1460761723Other title: Everything I know about love I learned on the wedding pages : a memoirSubject(s): Doty, Cate | New York times | Women journalists -- New York (State) -- Biography | Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc | Weddings -- New York (State) -- New York -- Newspapers | Love -- New York (State) -- New York -- Newspapers | Man-woman relationships -- Anecdotes | Weddings -- United States | Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc -- Love -- New York (State) -- New York | Weddings -- New York (State) -- New York -- Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc | Love -- New York (State) -- New York -- Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etcGenre/Form: Autobiographies. DDC classification: 395.22/05092 Summary: 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 starts to take the leap herself, she begins to ask her own questions about what it means to truly commit....Warm, witty, and keenly observed, Mergers and Acquisitions is an enthralling dive into one of society's most esteemed institutions, its creators and subjects, and a young woman's coming-of-age.
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"Cate Doty, former New York Times Weddings writer"--Cover.
"A memoir"-- Cover.
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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 starts to take the leap herself, she begins to ask her own questions about what it means to truly commit....Warm, witty, and keenly observed, Mergers and Acquisitions is an enthralling dive into one of society's most esteemed institutions, its creators and subjects, and a young woman's coming-of-age.
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