Miss Hard-Boiled

(no dust jacket) [ex-women's club library book (with rubber-stamp and handwritten note attesting to same on the front endpapers); worn copy, spine a little turned, fraying to extremities, staining to edges of text block, etc.; a reading copy only]. Novel about a young woman, Raquel Rojas, who leaves her small Arizona border town to escape a marriage to a man she doesn't love; she makes her way to New York (of course), lands a job as a model, and before you can say "ooh la la," finds herself swept off to Paris by a dashing Frenchman, Monsieur Alphonse. Although all the textual evidence suggests that Raquel is Mexican-American, nothing particular is made of her ethnicity in the course of the story -- except for the fact that she is often referred to as "Spanish" by the author, and by many of the other characters in the book. (The 1929 copyright is attributed to "Metropolitan Newspaper Service," which suggests initial publication as a serial, with this therefore being the first hardcover edition.)

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Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Year: (c.1930, 1929)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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