A Fortunate Madness.
Book Description
                        FIRST EDITION,
                    
                                            Dealer Notes
                            Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ‘For John Baxter - The only writer I’ve met whose madness makes absoulte sense. With admiration and affection, Susan, November 28, 1975’.
The author’s first novel, a study of bereavement and insanity in the experience of the ‘faltering, gifted young woman’ that is its protagonist. The author’s acquaintance with Baxter was presumably made at the University of Virginia - her alma mater, where Baxter was a visiting professor around this time.
                                    The author’s first novel, a study of bereavement and insanity in the experience of the ‘faltering, gifted young woman’ that is its protagonist. The author’s acquaintance with Baxter was presumably made at the University of Virginia - her alma mater, where Baxter was a visiting professor around this time.
                        Author
                        Shreve (Susan Richards)
                    
                    
                                        
                        Date
                        1974
                    
                    
                                        
                        Binding
                        original grey cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in black with wreath decorations, slight lean to spine, top edge pink, dustjacket price-clipped and a little nicked and rubbed,
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        Houghton Mifflin,
                    
                    
                    
                                        
                        Condition
                        good
                    
                    
                                        
                        Pages
                        pp. [vi], 212, crown 8vo,
                    
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