I Love You, Mary Fatt
by Davis, Russell F
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Signet Books (D2058). Very Good. 1962 (c.1961). 1st printing. Softcover. [moderate soft creasing in front cover, a little wear to extremities, spine tight and uncreased]. Mass Market PB First-person narrative by a lovestruck adolescent, one Clarence Bascomb, likened in the cover blurbs to Holden Caulfield and Booth Tarkington's Penrod. There's something about this book that I can't quite put my finger on, e.g.: although the narrator and all the primary characters are white, the cover illustrator seems to have somehow had the idea that Clarence was African-American. There's also an odd scene, about halfway through the book, in which our hero, telling his mother about his supposed girlfriend, invents a fake name for her on the spot, "Reeola Bones," which in turn prompts his mother to ask, slightly insistently: "She's not a Negro by any chance?" That brief and weird little episode seems to just come out of nowhere, and as far as I can see (not having read the entire thing) there are no actual black characters anywhere in the book, or in the unnamed town where the action takes place -- so where is this lady's sudden race-based anxiety coming from? Also: the book is scarce enough, in any printing, that it hints at the possibility of its having a cult following -- yet I can find out nothing biographical about the author at all. .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24029
- Title
- I Love You, Mary Fatt
- Author
- Davis, Russell F
- Illustrator
- (cover illus) Tsao
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Signet Books (D2058)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962 (c.1961)
- Keywords
- Romance, Adolescence
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Mass Market
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