Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the %E2%80%9860s and Beyond

Jane Maas, read by Coleen Marlo. Tantor Media, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4526-0550-0

Riffing heavily on the hit television show Mad Men, Maas's book provides the female point of view of the advertising world of the 1960s—an environment both chaotic and stodgy. The author, who began her advertising career as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather and eventually ascended to become chairman of Earle Palmer Brown, tracks her trajectory and the observations she gathered along the way—about race, gender, and the difficulties reconciling a working life with a home life. Narrator Coleen Marlo reads Maas's text crisply and cleanly. She effectively creates distinctive voices for Maas's various co-workers and bosses. However, when reading Maas's prose—which at times can be a bit dry—Marlo occasionally sounds flat, but this is a minor flaw in an otherwise enjoyable performance. A Thomas Dunne hardcover. (Feb.)

Reviewed on: 05/28/2012

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