Cassandra at the Wedding
by Baker, Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1962. Clean red cloth on boards with once silver titles though now the silver has greyed. Edges: light foxings. Eps: just a few sprinkles of foxings. Clean contents. Binding is As New. 226p Dj: very light dusting of soiling and foxings. Flaps spines with several wear holes; head & foot with chips. Head of spine with paperthin wear and teeny chips. . First Edition. Hb. VG/VG.
Synopsis
Dorothy Dodds Baker (1907–1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1907 and raised in California. After graduating from UCLA, she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married Howard Baker, a critic, professor, and editor. The couple moved back to California, and Baker completed an MA in French at UCLA, later teaching Latin at a private school. After having a few short stories published, Baker turned to writing full-time, despite, she would later claim, being “seriously hampered by an abject admiration for Ernest Hemingway.” In 1938, she published Young Man with a Horn (also available from NYRB Classics), a novel about a white jazz musician, which earned critical praise and eventually was made into a movie starring Kirk Douglas. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1942 and, the next year, published Trio , a novel whose frank portrayal of a lesbian relationship proved too scandalous for the times. Baker and her husband adapted Trio as a play in 1944, but it was quickly shut down because of protests. Baker died in 1968 of cancer. Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of short stories and a play. She is the winner of the 2000 Rea Award for the Short Story, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and five O. Henry Awards. She lives in New York City.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BOOKMARK Ltd
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042836
- Title
- Cassandra at the Wedding
- Author
- Baker, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction > General;
Terms of Sale
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