Sachs, Emanie N; Talk; New York: Harper & Brothers 1924. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 286, 4 ad pages. Hardcover.
American Literature - 20th Century First Novel Bowling Green (Kentucky) - Fiction Role of Women - Fiction Women Authors Women's Rights Small Town Fiction Social Conformity - Fiction
Good+/noDJ. Spine crease, light cock, light tone with light random foxing, later owner's address label, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.
"Crushed between the millstones of two generations - deprived of the right to live her own life by the narrow public opinion of one age, then scorned for failure by the next - such was the experience of Delia Morehouse. It is a tragedy which will find a response in the hearts of many whose lives have been lived among the changing thought and standards of the past thirty years." First novel set in a fiction small town similar to the author's Bowling Green, Kentucky, birthplace. Written while married to a Sachs heir to Goldman Sachs (and dedicated To My Husband), the novel and its author struggle with the role and freedom of women in contemporary American society. First Edition, First Printing of this breakthrough first novel.

Good+/noDJ. Spine crease, light cock, light tone with light random foxing, later owner's address label, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.

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