num_pages: 592
description: One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods upon me, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel in lower Fifth Avenue and rushed into the streets of the Village, feeling bad.So begins Letty Fox's own story, a comic extravaganza in which she tells about the crazy circus of her early life; about her moping mother, absent father, and two impossible sisters; about work and play, sex and men, and the seemingly unending search for a lasting relationship. This vast Flemish canvas of a novel, full of strikingly realistic likenesses and unforgettable grotesques, is a major work by one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Letty Fox: Her Luck
titlecomplete: Letty Fox: Her Luck
genres: Classics, Australia, New York, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 141
publisher: NYRB Classics