A Woman Like Me

[moderate shelfwear to lower extremities, light foxing to both pastedowns; the jacket is worn along the top and bottom edges, with various tiny nicks and a bit of creasing, and there's some scuffing to the spine panel]. This novel "is simply the story of Nancy Prager. Raised by a devoted elder sister to care for nothing but the preservation of her lovely face and body, Nancy ruthlessly sacrificed her family, her lovers, and her husband to satisfy her mad love for her own beauty. She lived for only one thought -- to preserve her looks, as she moved like another Helen of Troy through New York's kaledoscopic society. A really extraordinary first novel, and psychologically and pathologically one of the most interesting books in years." According to her jacket-blurb bio, the author was a New York-based journalist who began writing fiction in 1925, and "has written and sold over a million and a half words of pulp fiction, serials, novelettes, and short stories. [She] adores writing, has no theories about it, and writes anywhere from five to fourteen hours a day." Despite the book being dubbed "a promising first novel" by at least one critic, it took Mrs. Wilson twenty years to turn out a second book, which also turned out to be her last.

Product Info

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

Year: 1932

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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