The pearl bastard;: A novel

By Lillian Halegua and HALEGUA LILLIAN

Book Overview

During a school holiday, 15-year-old Francie escapes from her stifling New York home to the seaside on Long Island. On the beach she is raped, leaving her pregnant and unable to return home. Even her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007FT5NG
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: George Braziller, Inc.
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Quiet land mine

Halegua's hypnotic writing is lovely white noise (not quite) muting the bigotry that impacted our society mid-century and that sadly still exists. I'm concerned that this small but amazing story is not better known. In its stylistic radiance and for the courage of its author to speak the unspeakable, even the unredeemable, it should be recognized, discussed, cherished.