Jetta Carleton





Jetta Carleton

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born
Holden, MO, The United States

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Jetta Carleton (1913-1999) was born in Holden, Missouri, and earned a master's degree at the University of Missouri. She worked as a schoolteacher, a radio copywriter in Kansas City, and a television advertising copywriter in New York City, and she ran a small publishing house with her husband in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Moonflower Vine is her only published novel.


Average rating: 3.88 · 1,194 ratings · 358 reviews · 6 distinct works
The Moonflower Vine
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 1962 — 19 editions
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Clair de Lune: A Novel
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Wenn Die Mondblumen Blühen...
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“Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them?”
Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine

“Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.”
Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine

“But very early they understood that playing was somewhat suspect, allowed through indulgence, a trivial pastime soon outgrown, and only about twice removed from sin. Pleasure was only once-removed.”
Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine

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