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Love-Starved Woman
Wealthy attractive Isobel Lamarr thought she was happy until she read the Kinsey Report.
Although she'd never married , Isobel considered herself a well-adjusted woman. Imagine her shock when she overheard two bridge-playing acquaintances call her a "narrow-minded dried up old maid." They thought she could learn a thing or two from The Kinsey Study of Female Sexual Behavior. Isobel had always frowned at talk of sex, but curiosity drove her to a copy of this much-discussed book.
Fascinated by the statistics and discussion of physical intimacies, Isobel felt strange longings rise within her. She began to wonder what it would be like to be loved by a man. New Orleans was the laboratory she selected to study Life. There she had her first affair - a tempestuous, beautiful romance that transformed Isobel into a vivacious exciting woman and changed the entire course of her life.
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Although she'd never married , Isobel considered herself a well-adjusted woman. Imagine her shock when she overheard two bridge-playing acquaintances call her a "narrow-minded dried up old maid." They thought she could learn a thing or two from The Kinsey Study of Female Sexual Behavior. Isobel had always frowned at talk of sex, but curiosity drove her to a copy of this much-discussed book.
Fascinated by the statistics and discussion of physical intimacies, Isobel felt strange longings rise within her. She began to wonder what it would be like to be loved by a man. New Orleans was the laboratory she selected to study Life. There she had her first affair - a tempestuous, beautiful romance that transformed Isobel into a vivacious exciting woman and changed the entire course of her life.
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128 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1953
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December 25, 2020
Really enjoyed this fast-paced pulp romance. Fantastic dialog in places, with insults thrown back and forth in a way that I'd think was quite edgy in 1953. The plot is a bit straight-forward, but has a enough twists to keep the pages turning. Starts off tightly leashed to Isobel Lamar's POV and then roves around amongst the other characters. At first this POV switch was unsettling but it quickly became a strength of the novel as it rounds out the perspective of the situations and the characters. Nothing too exciting. Just a good time-capsule into small town 1950s life. And Gaddis is on top of her game with energetic and sharp prose. This is a digest-sized paperback original published in 1953 by Croydon. Can't find any record of this having been reprinted, which is quite rare for a Peggy Gaddis novel. Cover art by Bern Safran, who painted a lot of the early Croydon covers.
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