- Impostors and imposture, Pregnant women, Extortion, Fiction
Eight months pregnant and alone, Helen Georgesson's only hope is the five dollar bill and the train ticket back to her home town in San Francisco. On the train she befriends newlyweds Patrice and Hugh Hazzard.
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Grave, classical in form, unpretentious and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Cornell Woolrich
- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Impress, J.B. Lippincott Co., Renaissance Literary & Talent
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140258233
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Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
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