Mr. Bremble's Buttons

[a good sound book with only minor wear to the extremities; the jacket is edgeworn, with several internally tape-repaired tears, slight fading to the spine, and some soiling to the rear panel]. The last of three novels published by this Texas-born author during her lifetime. (Another, "Swamp Angel," was published posthumously.) The title character in this whimsical satire "is a gentle person -- not an intellectual, not unconventional, but lonely all the same." He's a suburban dweller "with his wife, Amelia, his mother-in-law, and an extremely unattractive poodle." From this "particular combination of realities with which it would be callous to ask any man to come to grips," he seeks escape in his secret hobbies: "a collection of buttons, crossword puzzles, and the making of words out of words (Parakeet: pear, pare, reap, rape, take, rake, part, tear, park, prate, rate, peer, rapt)." "For Mr. Bremble, happily, the mind's alienation takes a sweet course. He sails through several impertinent and flamboyant interviews with a psychoanalyst to a gradually expanding, unfamiliar gaiety that culminates in a hilarity of behavior in which he abandons all compromise with the Reality Principle."

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Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Year: 1947

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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