BEATRICE
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926. Second Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. Black, cloth-covered boards, ruled in blind. Spine sunned and a wee bit of fraying to spinecaps. Pages lightly toned. 173 pp. A novel set in Vienna whose characters step outside the moral boundaries of traditional married life. Very Good. Item #86295
Widowed Beatrice is vacationing with her son Hugo, who is about to begin an affair with a woman which his mother (Beatrice) does not approve of. Her mother begins a passionate affair with Hugo's best friend, and it is eventually revealed that Hugo's father had many extramarital affairs during the course of his marriage to Beatrice. And so it goes.
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