Evvie

Evvie

'Evvie,' by the author of 'Laura'

â€œCaspary is an expert at suspense and suspicionâ€¦She is also expert at evoking the flavor of a decade when martinis were drunk in coffee cups and rumbles were car seats.â€â€”The New York Times

Fanny Butcher, the literary critic for the Chicago Tribune, â€œcame out of retirement to declare it obsceneâ€”ironic judgment from today's point of view, since there are no graphic descriptions and the most explicit allusions are in a scene in which two naked girls discuss sex.â€ (Casparyâ€™s â€œThe Secrets of Grown-ups,â€ p. 265)

It was a time when skirts were short and hair was shingled. A time of speakeasies, hipflasks and bathtub gin. A time when Evvie Ashton, the beautiful society girl who modeled, danced, painted and loved promiscuously had come of ageâ€”knowing all the right people, doing all the wrong things, and sharing all of it with her roommate and confidante, Louise.
After being unusually reticent about her latest love, something unthinkable happens to Evvie. Louise must enter a world of duplicity and menace to learn of Evvieâ€™s fate and the identity of her last flame.

â€œEvvie is a haunting, period piece of a novel, written with the poetic power and skill of the novelist who gave us â€˜Lauraâ€™.â€â€”The Los Angeles Times

â€œA brilliant book.â€â€”New Statesman

â€œA story of flaming youth... a whodunit with a surprise ending...a psychological study of character... of love...and of twisted relationships...written with perception and insight. â€”The New York Herald Tribune

â€œWonderful.â€â€”The San Francisco Chronicle
Country USA
Manufacturer St. Swithin Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-02-07
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	St. Swithin Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-02-07
Format	Kindle eBook

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