The Happy Island

(no dust jacket) [nice copy with minimal shelfwear, slight discoloration to cloth around edges of front cover, very slight fading to spine cloth, one-time owner's small embossed ownership stamp (see Notes) on front and rear endpapers]. A novel from the middle of the author's most "successful" (relatively speaking) period, between 1936 and 1948, at the beginning of which she wrote the first of her novels of social satire with New York settings, "Turn, Magic Wheel." The present work tells the tale of a young aspiring playwright who travels from Ohio to New York City and looks up his childhood sweetheart, who has become a successful nightclub singer. He convinces her to come back to Ohio with him, but that doesn't last long, and she soon returns to New York and her circle of friends, including small-time entertainers, radio performers, dilettantes, professional beauties, and various homosexual and bisexual men -- as The New Yorker critic called them, "a pretty worthless and ornery lot of people." This was reportedly one of Powell-booster Gore Vidal's favorites among her works. This copy is from the collection of MGM writer/producer Carey Wilson, whose embossed stamp adorns both endpapers.

Product Info

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

Year: (c.1938)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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