Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
"I'm not, at heart, a jumper; it's not my sort of thing...I think I knew all the time I was sizing up the bridge that the strong possibility was I'd go home, attend my sister's wedding as invited, help hook-and-zip her into whatever she wore, take the bouquet while she received the ring, through the nose or on the finger, wherever she chose to receive it, and hold my peace when it became a question of speaking now of forever holding it." It is the hottest June on record and the longest day of the year. Cassandra Edwards -tormented, intelligent, mordantly witty - leaves her graduate studies and her Berkeley flat to drive through the scorching heat to her family's ranch. There they are all assembled: her philosopher father, smelling sweetly of five-star Hennessy; her kind, fussy grandmother; her beloved, identical twin sister Judith, who is about to be married - unless Cassandra can help it.
'I-whose usual bed time is ten o'clock-stayed up all night reading that exquisite Cassandra at the Wedding-dazzled by the pyrotechnics of such an artist' Carson McCullers 'A novel of exceptional quality' The Times 'Flows and sparkles like a spring freshet' San Francisco Chronicle 'Belongs with Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and McCullers's The Member of the Wedding as a modern American classic' Georgina Hammick
Dorothy Dodds Baker (1907-68) was born in Montana but grew up in California and after her marriage lived in France. Her first novel, Young Man with a Horn, about a white jazz musician, was a great critical success and was made into a film starring Kirk Do
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| ISBN 13 | 9780860682448 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860682447 |
| Title | Cassandra at the Wedding |
| Author | Dorothy Baker |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1982-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 238 |
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