Chocolates for Breakfast - A Novel

"A gem of adolescent disaffection featuring a Holden Caulfield-like heroine." -- Vogue.com "Once I started reading it, I didn''t want to stop. . . . If your all-time favorite books include works of young-adult fiction (like Catcher ), I strongly urge you to take a look." -- USA Today/Pop Candy A riveting coming-of-age classic, Chocolates for Breakfast became an international sensation upon its initial publication in 1956, and still stands out as a shocking and moving account of the way teenagers collide, often disastrously, against love and sex for the first time. This edition includes a foreword by author Emma Straub. Courtney Farrell is a disaffected, sexually precocious fifteen-year-old. She splits her time between Manhattan, where her father works in publishing, and Los Angeles, where her mother is a still-beautiful Hollywood actress. After a boarding-school crush on a female teacher ends badly, Courtney sets out to learn everything fast. Her first drink is a very dry martini, and her first kiss the beginning of a full-blown love affair with an older man.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Moore, MOORE PAMELA
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2013
• EAN: 9780062246912
• ISBN: 978-0-06-224691-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Series: HarperPerennial; Harper Perennial; P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION: General, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Romance / New Adult