BECAUSE SHE CAN

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA meets the publishing industry. Claire Truman is engaged to her college crush, but her romantic fantasies pale in the face of the reality of her overworked fiancé. At the same time, her friendship with a burgeoning male author holds more attraction than she'd like to admit. Claire's prestigious publishing job is highly stressful and unavoidably ugly--she works for Vivian Grant, an abusive, raging, smut-drawn diva, who issues unreasonable demands at all hours. Lynde Houck drapes words with sarcasm, delivers sentences with wit, and puts fabulous oomph and humor into Grant's temper tantrums. Houck's performance shows her ability to switch emotions rapidly as she strips the veneer of glamour from Claire's world. S.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: JUN/ JUL 07]