''The Devil Wears Prada'' flags whenever it spends too much time in this company. After all, she did seem to be drunk pretty consistently.'' He's virtuous, but can he compete with the Prince Charming whom Andy will meet via Runway? And what about Andy's best friend, Lily? Trouble for Lily is signaled with the book's typical level of subtlety: ''I briefly wondered if Lily might be drinking too much these days. Alex is a nice-guy college boyfriend who teaches fourth graders and runs an after-school program. He is one of several bland peripheral characters meant to represent the real world. ''You don't think it's completely selling out to work at a fashion magazine, do you?'' she asks Alex, her boyfriend. And she has enough scorn for the fictitious fashion bible Runway to wonder if she's slumming to take an editorial assistant's job there. She reveres that magazine and expects to write for it someday. That heroine is Andrea Sachs, known as Andy and eager to prove her literary talents at The New Yorker. And her book's sour, sarcastic, self-involved heroine is too much of a pill to be endearing. Weisberger lacks the self-deprecating humor and warmth for that. Like that other disgruntled employee, Bridget Jones, they managed to be genuinely funny and ingratiating while skewering bosses whom readers had reason to hate. Just ask the former nannies who wrote ''The Nanny Diaries'' and who come off as the Brontë sisters next to Ms. This is not to suggest that the work-and-tell genre does not have its merits.
Now she has written a novel, ''The Devil Wears Prada,'' and can devote a second career to insisting that it is not exactly, precisely, entirely one long swat at the editor of Vogue. Weisberger graduated from college and began her professional life in a low-level position at the Condé Nast publishing empire.
She would be dishing the dirt, wreaking vengeance and complaining all the way.Ĭinderella may have been too nice for that, but Lauren Weisberger is not. She would be writing a tell-all book about her ugly stepsisters and wicked stepmother, taking care to position herself at the absolute center of their story. If Cinderella were alive today, she would not be waiting patiently for Prince Charming.
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