Psyche
by Young, Phyllis Brett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Toronto/New York/London: Longmans, Green and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1959. 1st Edition (stated). Hardcover. [minor wear to extremities, spine slightly turned; jacket a little edgeworn, tiny paper loss at a couple of corners, one-inch closed tear at top of front panel, small tear and associated creasing at top rear flap-fold]. First novel by this Canadian author, a psychological suspense novel (sort of) that's kicked off by the kidnapping of a two-year-old girl, who is almost immediately abandoned by her kidnapper following a car accident, and eventually deposited on the doorstep of the shack of a miner and his wife. The book isn't any kind of police-procedural or traditional hunt-for-the-missing-girl novel, though -- rather, it's a portrait of the girl herself (Psyche is her name, although it's unclear if that was her actual given name) and "her search for herself through the vicissitudes -- fascinating, moving, often hair-raising, and sometimes sardonically humorous -- of her strange, fantastically chequered formative years," as she grows to young adulthood under the care of her involuntary adoptive parents. A film adaptation was announced in 1961, which was to have been directed by Victor Saville and to star Susannah York, but the movie was never made. .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26653
- Title
- Psyche
- Author
- Young, Phyllis Brett
- Illustrator
- (dj drawing) Jean Miller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dj
- Edition
- 1st Edition (stated)
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Company
- Place of Publication
- Toronto/New York/London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Kidnapping, Psychology, First Novel, Canadian Literature
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