Anna by Amy Odell

Author:Amy Odell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2022-05-03T00:00:00+00:00

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The first week of February 2003, The Devil Wears Prada was published. All signs pointed to it being big—Weisberger promoted it on the Today show, the first print run was 100,000 copies, and Wendy Finerman, the producer who optioned it for film, was known for the Oscar-winning Forrest Gump.

Yet Weisberger, while talking up her Vogue work experience in the press, insisted that—despite the character of Miranda Priestly, who tortured protagonist Andrea Sachs with endless, sometimes impossible, and seemingly trivial demands—“nothing was based on Anna.”

In a profile by the New York Times media columnist David Carr that ran shortly after the book came out, Anna said, “I always enjoy a great piece of fiction,” and, “I haven’t decided whether I’m going to read it or not.”

But along with many of her colleagues, Anna did read it. “No one was too excited about the book or got very upset about it because it was difficult to read. I know Anna read it and she was sort of bemused. She wasn’t offended. She wasn’t bothered by it at all,” said Jones.

Friend William Norwich agreed that Anna “really didn’t care” about the book even after it spent six months on the New York Times best-seller list. “I don’t think Anna is as interested in the cultural phenomenon that she is as the rest of us are,” he said. Anna has said to friends, “I’m so bored by me.” This is one reason she doesn’t plan to ever write a memoir. Norwich explained, “She doesn’t want to stop working to reflect.”

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