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Devanny, Jean The Butcher Shop
New York The Macaulay Company (c.1926) NO 1st U.S. edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Good dj
[solid copy, spine slightly turned, light age-toning to page edges, some pencil notations and previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket moderately edgeworn, some scuffing to front panel, chipping at top of spine, a couple of sticker-scars on spine]. The first published novel by this New Zealand-born writer (1894-1962), who later became a prominent speaker and activist on behalf of the Communist Party of Australia, and was well-known for her outspoken opinions on sexuality and women's rights. This early work, which depicts "the sacrifice of womanhood in the marriage marts" through the story of a woman who "represents modern intellectual unrest baffled by the staid existence of a pastoral community" and lets herself in for tragedy when "she wants to retain both her husband and her lover," was banned in New Zealand, Australia, Germany and parts of the U.S. The author was expelled from the Communist Party in 1941, ostensibly for "moral degeneracy," and later lamented that her involvement with the Party and its causes had prevented her from realizing her full potential as a writer (although she did publish over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction).
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