Letty Fox: Her Luck (New York Review Books Classics)
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Book Description
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 upon 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.
So begins Letty Fox's own story, a comic extravaganza in which she tells about the crazy circus of her early life; about her moping mother, absent father, and two impossible sisters; about work and play, sex and men, and the seemingly unending search for a lasting relationship. This vast Flemish canvas of a novel, full of strikingly realistic likenesses and unforgettable grotesques, is a major work by one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth century.
About the Author
CHRISTINA STEAD (1902-1983) was born in Sydney, Australia. She had a troubled childhood-later to be the inspiration for her novel The Man Who Loved Children-which was dominated by the figure of her biologist father, a man of great energy and cranky conviction who alternately encouraged and humiliated his brilliant but ungainly daughter. Determined to be a writer, Stead left Australia in 1928, pursuing a peripatetic and financially precarious career which took her to London, Paris, New York, Hollywood, and, in her last years, back to the environs of Sydney. Stead's first book, The Salzburg Tales, appeared in 1934. It was followed by many others, including House of All Nations, For Love Alone, Letty Fox: Her Luck, and Cotters' England.
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