One Woman

By Tiffany Thayer

"Another monument to Thayer's surprising originality. It's a you-can't-lay-it-down book, extremely fascinating." Lexington Herald-Leader

Rosita's body is found by reporter Abe Adams in a sleazy Chicago hotel room, where she died of diphtheria. She's not famous, or even infamous, but something compels him to take her little red book, which he uses to reach out to her friends, family and lovers to reveal her lost life, which was filled with contradictions, adventures, and secrets As Abe's quest continues, he finds himself falling love with the complicated, surprising woman, existing now only as a figment of his imagination, made up of fragments of other people's memories.

This book, back in print now for the first time in over 90 years, was adapted into the 1933 Clara Bow movie Call Her Savage and then decades later into the pilot movie for the hit 1970s TV series The Name of the Game.

"Devilishly clever. He disarms critics by his own sophisticated pose of laughing at his own sentimentality. He is headed for that mythical front rank of novelists. If he is not, he remains of the most original and entertaining wordslingers in America." Los Angeles Times

"Tiffany Thayer has given up sex. Oh, not entirely, of course. But his latest book is at least not an attempt to pump the borders of the unprintable. An illuminating glimpse at a tangled, turbulent, sordid and complex life." San Diego Sun

"His best story yet. It's is a complicated plot but you will find it holds you. This fellow has the gift." San Francisco Chronicle

"This is Tiffany Thayer as different, as thrilling, as daring as he has ever been. He remains the master of the picaresque novel." Durham Herald

"A tale of memorable worth." New York Daily Mirror

"A sensational story, his most serious book so far, and it will penetrate beyond his habitual readers to a much larger audience than he has ever reached. By this we do not mean that the stamp of Tiffany Thayer is not there. It's not a pretty tale, but very real, very alive. You are certain to be held breathless with anticipation." Dayton Daily News

"Brilliant and absorbing all the way." St. Louis Globe-Democrat

"This is Tiffany Thayer at his very best and, despite the many who despise his habit of not censoring life or the vernacular, he can be very good. His wild wit and imagination have always been his chief attraction." Cincinnati Enquirer

"As usual, Thayer hooks his fish, which is the reader. Because his previous books were brilliant without restraint, this author has been frequently scolded by the literary faculty and his often needless fascination with the bawdy rhetoric has revolted the more than finicky among the pundits. But both critic and reader will discover in One Woman a Thayer who has begun to practice restraint. The result is an incredible story." Brooklyn Eagle

"Tremendously alive," Detroit News

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1962896862
• ISBN13: 9781962896863
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Cutting Edge Books
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"