first edition Hardcover
1937 · New York
by JAMES, Norah C.
New York: Macaulay, 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in lightly soiled near fine dustwrapper. Novel about a woman born to be subservient to a drunken sailor father, an abused mother, a brutal husband, and a tragic lover. The Irish-born author earned her literary reputation with the 1929 novel *Sleeveless Errand* which was suppressed because of its frank treatment of infidelity and depression. Her next novels were wrongly slotted by publishers as "women's fiction" or romance, but even a cursory examination suggests the grim subject matter she wrote about with regard to dysfunctional families are due for reexamination. A lovely copy. (Inventory #: 422640)