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THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T
by WILDER, Gene
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Signed on the title page in bookseller's presence. A fine, as new copy in a pristine pictorial dust jacket.
First edition, first printing. Wilder's second novel is set in 1903 at a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany. Jeremy Webb, a young concert violinist of the Cleveland Orchestra, has had a nervous breakdown onstage and is sent to the resort in an effort to restore his equilibrium. While casting about for his sanity he encounters a devastatingly beautiful fellow inmate, Mrs. Clara Mulpas, who he decides will fall for his line - she doesn't. She has sworn off men and is adamantly impervious to his suit. Wilder credits Anton Chekhov's short stories for his inspiration. I personally don't remember Chekhov divulging a love interest's constipation but I concede I haven't read his entire oeuvre.
First edition, first printing. Wilder's second novel is set in 1903 at a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany. Jeremy Webb, a young concert violinist of the Cleveland Orchestra, has had a nervous breakdown onstage and is sent to the resort in an effort to restore his equilibrium. While casting about for his sanity he encounters a devastatingly beautiful fellow inmate, Mrs. Clara Mulpas, who he decides will fall for his line - she doesn't. She has sworn off men and is adamantly impervious to his suit. Wilder credits Anton Chekhov's short stories for his inspiration. I personally don't remember Chekhov divulging a love interest's constipation but I concede I haven't read his entire oeuvre.
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- Second Wind Books LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 356
- Title
- THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T
- Author
- WILDER, Gene
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Health resort women
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