Christina Stead's brilliant satire of marriage, desire and the conventions that surround them. One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods on me, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel in lower Fifth Avenue and rushed into the streets of the Village, feeling bad. Letty Fox- Her Luck, Christina Stead's sixth novel, was first published in New York in 1946, and banned in Australia for its salaciousness. Set in wartime Manhattan and told in Letty's own spiky and exuberant voice, the novel follows her successes and failures in the game of 'being somebody'. Letty's tireless pursuit of love and sex provides the setting for Stead's brilliant satire of marriage, desire and the conventions that surround them.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
ISBN-13
9780522854053
eBay Product ID (ePID)
101858841
Product Key Features
Book Title
Letty Fox: Her Luck
Author
Christina Stead
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
761 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
199mm
Item Width
131mm
Item Weight
646g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Christina Stead
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
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