![]() ![]() The book's central figure-an independent woman much like Vera Caspary herself-is seen from different angles by men with varying designs on her before she finally is permitted to speak in her own disarmingly straightforward voice. ![]() "Laura i s an elegant novel about outwardly elegant people-a book, in Julian Symons's words, "of unusual wit and style," and one of its pleasures is providing an opportunity to vicariously experience in rich detail an upscale 1940s Manhattan of supper clubs, cocktail parties, concert halls, and antique shops, even as that bubble world is turned inside out by a brutal murder. Dust jacket is worn, taped, Has been mended and cleaned up a bit since this photo was taken. Good Condition/ Acceptable Original Laura/glass globe dust jacket. Laura (1943, Houghton Mifflin BCE W/DJ)Caspary, Vera LAURA, 1943 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN BCE Used. ![]()
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