A last, and most welcome contribution to #ChristinaSteadWeek – and how I love that allusion to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own!
ANZLitLoversChristina Stead Week Nov 14-20 2016
The copy of Letty Fox I have is not that pictured above but one from Imprint (A&R) in 1991 with an Introduction by Susan Sheridan which begins:
Letty Fox: Her Luck (1946) is the first of a trio of satirical novels which Christina Stead wrote about the sexual and political lives of New Yorkers as she had observed them while living there before and during the Second World War.
Without further ado, here is the first paragraph (a review will take much longer, sorry).
“One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods on me, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel in lower Fifth Avenue and rushed into the streets of the…
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