Harper Re-Releasing 1956 Coming-Of-Age Novel Chocolates For Breakfast
LatestI don’t make a habit of reviewing galleys of books that get sent to me, because — unlike panning The Hangover 3 or something, after which Todd Phillips will probably not show up at my house with tear-stained sleeves — there is the distinct possibility that the author will read my review, and I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings. So you should take what I’m about to say with hella gravitas.
There’s a new (well, not new, but new to most of us) addition to the smart, edgy coming-of-age female lexicon: Harper Perennial is re-releasing the 1956 novel Chocolates For Breakfast, written by then-18-year-old Barnard student Pamela Moore as an American answer to the France’s Françoise Sagan novel Bonjour Tristesse. It follows Courtney Farrell*, who’s 15 when the novel opens, through a boarding school in Greenwich, Connecticut, in The Garden of Allah — the real-life famous L.A. apartment complex that houses her movie star mom, and where she loses her virginity to a barely-closeted, alcoholic heartthrob — and binge-drinking Ivy League parties in New York. It’s also totally unputdownable in the best way. And the reissued cover’s not even that bad!