Chocolates for Breakfast
by:
Pamela Moore (author)
Pamela Moore,Paperback - Original,Series: P.S. Series, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 06-25-2013
Pamela Moore,Paperback - Original,Series: P.S. Series, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 06-25-2013
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062246912 (0062246917)
Publish date: June 25th 2013
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Considered America’s answer to the French sensation BONJOUR TRISTESSE (also published by Harper Perennial), CHOCOLATES FOR BREAKFAST follows Courtney Farrell, a classic disaffected, sexually precocious fifteen year old. Courtney splits her time between Manhattan, where her father works in publishing...
Wow, this reprint of a 1956 bestseller is dynamite! I’ll just tell you what happens in the first chapter: Fifteen year old Courtney (this novel is what led to Courtney becoming a popular girl’s name, just as Charlotte Bronte gave us Shirley as a girl’s name, both names originally being for boys) lou...
3.5 stars
Written by an 18-year old girl who started at Barnard College at 16, Chocolates for Breakfast is a sad, frenetic, pensive, self-indulgent, and deliciously dramatic novel of the late 1950s, Hollywood, and that horrible transition from child to adult.Set in 1956, the novel follows Courtney Farrell, wh...
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