Mrs. Bratbe's August Picnic

Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. [slight bumping to all corners, faint soiling to top of text block, shelfwear and light soiling to lower extremities; the jacket is lightly soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears along the top edge, a bit of wear and minor curling/creasing along bottom edge]. "Set primarily in England in the nineteen-fifties, [this novel] concerns a very young woman who is willing to go to any lengths to cross from childhood to the world of adults and to explore the heights and depths once she gets there. The young woman is Alexandra Bratbe, precocious, arrogant, enigmatic, rebellious, immensely self-willed and terribly lonely. Expelled from a fashionable boarding school as a result of an unexpected incident involving a pornographic book, Alexandra is shipped off to France by her mother with the hope that [some friends] in Paris will take her in hand. But in some ways it is Alexandra who takes them in hand and she soon returns to England in disgrace." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** .