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Cavanna, Betty A Time for Tenderness New York William Morrow & Co. 1962 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dj Illustrated by (dj) Evaline Ness [solid copy with mild shelfwear, light stain to cloth at fore-edge of front cover from where dust jacket had gotten a little wet (internally) and stuck to cover; there is also some scrunching/wrinkling in the title page; jacket has excellent exterior appearance, internal dampstain only faintly visible, one-inch tear at bottom of front fold-over, moderate chipping at spine ends]. Peggy and her mother and little brother move to Rio de Janeiro, where they experience inter-generational conflict in the face of the strange new social customs -- in particular, Peggy's mother "found it impossible to reconcile herself to the casual acceptance of dark-skinned people." "With vivid language [the author] describes the life of Americans who live in ' The Marvelous City,' the wild color and excitement of Carnival, the squalor of the slums where Peggy works in a clinic." Price: 20.00 USD
Cavanna, Betty Stars in Her Eyes New York William Morrow & Co. 1958 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dj Illustrated by (dj) Isabel Dawson (price-clipped) [mild shelfwear and edge-soiling, attractive bookplate on front pastedown; jacket has small tears at several corners & spine extremities, a tiny bit of paper loss at base of spine]. Novel about the daughter of a famous television personality, who "longed to look glamorous (though not enough to make her curb her appetite), to be attractive to boys (though she didn't quite know how to go about it), and, above all, to appear triumphantly on her father' s television show." (Can you say "Freudian subtext"?) Price: 40.00 USD
