- Americans, Fiction, Fiction in English, Americans in Paris
It’s been described as “Catcher in the Rye” for girls by British blogger Moira Redmond.
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Cool, classical in form, comic and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Elaine Dundy
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- New York Review Books, Dutton, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781853815812
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