“He would not insist. She was warm and generous again. The minute she thought he wanted nothing she was able to flower, but if he reached out she closed and hardened.”
O’Brien’s story of a few summer weeks in the life of a young woman—modern, liberated, separated from a husband she once loved—who after an empty and celibate year attempts to reconnect herself to life through sexual adventure.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First printing (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 220 pages. Dust jacket in fair condition and in protector. Boards with some staining, but little edge wear or bumping to corners. Binding tight and square. Pages tanned. Solid copy.
