Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786691392
Publisert
2017-05-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo Library
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
592
Forfatter
Introduksjon ved
Om bidragsyterne
Christina Stead (1902-1983) was born in Sydney but lived for most of her life outside Australia. She wrote fifteen novels and several volumes of short stories. Her most famous novel, The Man Who Loved Children (1940) is also published by Apollo.
One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarrelled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods on me, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel in lower Fifth Avenue and rushed into the streets of the Village, feeling bad.
Letty Fox is hunting for a husband. Her picaresque adventures are brilliantly described in this imaginative portrayal of a woman who might have been independent, but chose otherwise.
Les mer
Letty Fox talks us through her search for marital bliss in 1930s New York and London.
To open a book, any book, by Christina Stead and read a few pages is to be at once aware that one is in the presence of greatness... Letty Fox: Her Luck is a fully achieved comic novel of a most original kind'
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Letty Fox talks us through her search for marital bliss in 1930s New York and London.
First published in 1947, last in print 1999.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786691392
Publisert
2017-05-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo Library
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
592
Forfatter
Introduksjon ved