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Hard cover, 8 vo, in quarter foil covered spine, decorative boards illustrated by Wayne Thiebaud, 69 pp. First edition, (later printing). CONDITION: Fine, as new. **This novella has been described thus: "Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One should cultivate weavers of tweed in the Outer Hebrides but have the cloth made up in London; one should buy linen in Ireland but have it made up by a Thai seamstress in Paris. All this and much more she has learned, governed by a parent of ferociously lofty standards. But at 17, during the annual Ramadan travels, she finds all assumptions overturned. Will she be able to fend for herself? Will the dictates of good taste suffice when she must deal, singlehanded, with the publishing sharks of New York?" (blurb) ISBN 978-0-8112-3007-0. The American-born and well-traveled novelist Helen DeWitt (b.1957) has also published a collection of short stories "New Tricks" which was nominated for the 2019 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her published novels include "The Last Samurai" (2000), "Lightning Rods" (2011) and, with Ilya Gridneff, "Your Name Here." (2025).** This volume is a truly excellent tale full of unexpected twists and turns. (AMJ)
Ref: FICTC 9691
$25.00