No Sad Songs for Me

(price-clipped) [good solid copy, nice and clean except for some dust-soiling to top edge; jacket worn along right and left edges of front panel, light soiling, very minor chipping at spine ends, main flaw is a large surface-peel scar on the rear panel]. Unaccountably scarce novel about a woman "whose selfless love for her husband gave her courage to meet her greatest crisis" -- namely, being diagnosed with terminal cancer during the early months of pregnancy with her second child. She doesn't tell anybody -- not even her husband -- as she bravely goes about preparing her family for life without her. As a tale of mother love and self-sacrifice, it ranks right up there with "Stella Dallas," and it was the basis for the 1950 movie of the same name, a big-time weepie which (ironically or not) proved to be the final screen performance of Margaret Sullavan. It was also, apparently, the author's only book -- which leads to the somewhat morbid speculation that it might have been a veiled work of autobiography. (And for Lewis Carroll aficionados, there is a lovely evocation of "Alice in Wonderland" in the book's final scene.)

Product Info

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

Year: 1944

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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