But Enough About Me: How a Small-Town Girl Went from Shag Carpet to the Red Carpet
✍ Scribed by Dunn, Jancee
- Book ID
- 107898069
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 247 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The second I stepped through the doors of Rolling Stone as a real employee, I wanted to shake off my old personality like the rigid husk of a cicada. But how could I cultivate a new, hip persona when I lived with my parents in a New Jersey suburb and wore black leggings as pants?
New Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen, a tantalizing array of malls, and, especially, her family. Barreling down the Turnpike in her parents' Buick LeSabre, her perm brushing the ceiling of the car, she felt ragingly alive. But one night she met a girl who worked at Rolling Stone magazine in New York City. To Jancee, who visited the city exactly once a year with her parents and two sisters, New York might as well have been in Canada. But she loved music, so with bleak expectations she passed along her rÉsumÉ, dashing her father's hopes that she would carry on the family legacy of service to J. C. Penney (a...