The Mango Season

New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. [very light shelfwear, very faint dampstain on front board (not affecting interior in any way); jacket shows minor wear at edge and corners, a bit of fading at spine]. Novel set in Bangkok in the late 1940s, revolving around the "wife of an American diplomat [who] has the remote charm of a very beautiful woman who knows what it means to be lover instead of beloved. Her marriage to Jay Sheppard has been a second-best, kept alive because he wanted it so. But now, in the restless heat of the mango season -- those sweltering, intense days when the fruit is ripe and nature arrives at its own climax -- Nora comes to a decision which may mean a new life." The author, per her jacket bio, had spent time in Southeast Asia (including Bangkok) with her own husband, who was -- wait for it -- an American diplomat. This was her first, and apparently only, novel. .