Cassandra at the Wedding
by Baker, Dorothy
- Used
- fair
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 1590176014
- ISBN 13
- 9781590176016
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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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- Bookseller
- Northshire Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2594724
- Title
- Cassandra at the Wedding
- Author
- Baker, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- S
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590176014
- ISBN 13
- 9781590176016
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- This edition first published
- 2012-08-21
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- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....