An Abandoned Woman
by O'Brien, Howard Vincent
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [ex-lending library book (label on front pastedown, large neatly-applied stamp on ffep), small unrelated bookstore stamp at bottom corner of front pastedown, very slight fraying to cloth at one bottom corner, otherwise just lightly worn; jacket has minor paper loss at several corners, a few small tears and associated creasing, internal tape repair to a rather jagged tear at bottom of rear panel (fairly neatly done, with minimal paper loss)]. "A brilliant and modern view of American married life as [the author] has seen it in smart suburbia." The plot centers around Joan, "a passionate, brilliant, dissatisfied woman with relative indifference to the idea of virtue and an insatiable desire to get something more from life than flavorless security," who leaves her husband and children to run off to Europe with an artist, only to discover that "the scorned luxuries of home were as much a part of her as the burning ardors of untrammeled love." .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16502
- Title
- An Abandoned Woman
- Author
- O'Brien, Howard Vincent
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Donald Teague
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City NY
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Marriage, Suburban Life, Artists, Fiction: Vintage
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