CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

Book ID/图书代码： 04160007B14250

English Summary/英文概要： A professional who has worked her way up from a secretary to vice-president of a major Hollywood studio, is at the height of a glamorous career, only to find that her personal life is more important than corporate politics. From the co-author, with Kate Klimo, of "Golden Triple Time".

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 从秘书到一间好莱坞工作室副主席，她现在是一名专业人士，她正处在事业光辉耀眼的巅峰，然而她却又在一夕之间突然发现：原来私人生活远比职场政治要更为重要。本书来自于凯特•克里莫“黄金三角时代”的合著人巴菲•夏特。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：《出版家周刊》点评：

这是一个有关于罗宾森故事的小说作品（她是哥伦比亚制片现任执行官），她向我们很好的证实了一点：每一个不住在纽约或是洛杉矶的人，但凡还有一丝理智，都会直觉的意识到---电影行业绝对与我们所想象到或者读到的不一样。书中的叙述者/女主角被她的同事们称为宠物，却从秘书一职慢慢称为了一家大型电影公司的副总，伴随着每一次的晋升，她对自己的所作所为也愈加茫然，除了批评自己的秘书以外，自己又究竟能够做什么？当整个故事离那些真正的影片制片人越来越远时，整个故事本身的吸引力也随之下降。不论是叙述者本人还是其他角色，都不再如往常一般充满活力，甚至公司内部的权力之争也描述的平淡无奇。即便其中有些人物角色开始吸食毒品，也并未产生所谓的副作用或是令人烦扰的结果。尽管故事的女主人公百般思索，她却从未真正意识到，正是她对成功的痴迷于追逐促使她完美的丈夫离她而去。

《图书馆期刊》点评：

首先，小说家罗宾森清楚的知道，当她讲述一名女性通过努力一步步在电影行业里往上攀登时，她想要表达什么---这是一名女子的发迹史，从秘书到公关，从首席导演到资深副总，这不仅是一个故事，更是她自己的亲身经历，有关于她如何最终成为了哥伦比亚电影公司的市场总监。全书的开端是一名秘书坐在办公桌前，她思考着是否应该将发丝剪断，并同时终结这一切，场景随机便切换到她坐在一架私人飞机之上，只不过此时的她思考的是和当初同样的问题。尽管罗宾森在书中大量引用了许多电影行业的专用词汇与看法，整个故事还是略微显得平淡无奇，并没有能够很好的传达出兴奋、激情，以及当一名女性不断爬向企业高层时，她所表现出来的铁石心肠。罗宾森平淡的文风使得这部作品更适宜被归类为非小说类文学体裁，因此也有人质疑，为何她不借此创作一部回忆录，而是要以本书这样的一种形式。

From Publishers Weekly

Robinson’s insider novel (she is an executive at Columbia Pictures) proves what every sensible person who doesn’t live in New York or Los Angeles already knows intuitively--the movie business isn’t what it’s cracked up to be, and neither is reading about it. The narrator/heroine, called "Pet" by her colleagues, rises from secretary to executive vice-president of a large film company, and with each promotion it is increasingly vague what she really does except criticize her secretaries. As the story gets farther away from the people who actually make films, it becomes less and less interesting. Neither the narrator nor anyone else is a dynamic character, and corporate power struggles have been described better by others. Even when several characters use drugs, no side effects or other inconveniences result. For all the heroine’s musing, she never does understand that it is indeed her obsession with her success that prompts her perfect husband to seek other arrangements. If Hollywood were truly as flat and tedious as this book suggests, everyone would pack up and sell insurance.

From Library Journal

First novelist Robinson knows what she’s talking about when she tells the tale of a woman who works her way up the ranks in the film industry--from secretary to publicist to senior publicist to director to 1senior director to senior vice president to executive vice president--because Robinson herself did much the same thing, ultimately becoming president of marketing at Columbia Pictures. The book begins with the heroine as a secretary, sitting at her desk wondering whether to have her hair cut and ends with her wondering the same thing, except this time she’s sitting in a private jet. Though Robinson captures the stereotypes and language of the film industry, this story is curiously flat and fails to communicate the excitement, passion, and ruthlessness of a woman’s climb up the corporate ladder. Robinson’s dry style would seem to fit the nonfiction genre better, and one wonders why she didn’t write a memoir instead. A marginal purchase.-Rosellen Brewer, Monterey Cty . Free Libs . , Seaside, Cal.

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