One Fierce Hour and Sweet

[tight clean copy with only light wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket shows general wear and light soiling (mostly to rear panel), minor chipping/tearing at top of spine, one shallow chip at top of rear panel, spine a bit browned] First (and only) novel by this noted playwright and journalist, about a young suburban housewife who seeks psychiatric help to deal with the unrest boiling beneath the surface of her apparently happy life. (The novel is narrated by the shrink.) The author had been a newspaperwoman in her early life (she was the only American reporter to interview Pancho Villa after the Mexican Revolution) before turning to writing for the stage. She often produced her own plays, the best known of which was the 1928 expressionist drama "Machinal," inspired by the Ruth Snyder murder case. [NOTE: I am unsure of the first edition status of this book, because it appears to depart from the usual A-C-C practice of indicating the printing with a bracketed number on the last page of the text; in this book there is no number at all on the last page; the code "589-1" appears on the copyright page.] [This book is featured in ReadInk's Catalog #2, "Skirts, in Jackets"; ask for it by name or number.]

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Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.

Year: (c.1959)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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