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New York: Horace Liveright, Inc, 1931. H. Good.

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc.. Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1931. 3rd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [very nice copy, no significant wear to book; jacket shows just a bit of wear to spine extremities]. The only novel by the then-ex-wife of Sinclair Lewis (they had divorced in 1925 and he had already remarried, to journalist Dorothy Thompson), this book doesn't try very hard (or at all) to put up any kind of a "fictionalized" screen -- the jacket blurb states: "This story of what it means to be a famous author's wife, told by a famous author's former wife, throws a floodlight upon the jangled marriages of today." OK, she at least changes the names -- the husband here is "Timothy Hale" -- but the autobiographical nakedness shines through from the first page, on which we meet the protagonist, who's working as an editor at a magazine called "Fashion." (In real life, Ms. Hegger was an editor at "Vogue.") She got another… Read More