{"product_id":"cassandra-at-the-wedding-paperback","title":"Cassandra at the Wedding - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDeborah Eisenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dorothy Baker's entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken--at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 1962, \u003ci\u003eCassandra at the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy Dodds Baker (1907-1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1907 and raised in California. After graduating from UCLA, she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married Howard Baker, a critic, professor, and editor. The couple moved back to California, and Baker completed an MA in French at UCLA, later teaching Latin at a private school. After having a few short stories published, Baker turned to writing full-time, despite, she would later claim, being \"seriously hampered by an abject admiration for Ernest Hemingway.\" In 1938, she published \u003ci\u003eYoung Man with a Horn\u003c\/i\u003e (also available from NYRB Classics), a novel about a white jazz musician, which earned critical praise and eventually was made into a movie starring Kirk Douglas. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1942 and, the next year, published \u003ci\u003eTrio\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel whose frank portrayal of a lesbian relationship proved too scandalous for the times. Baker and her husband adapted \u003ci\u003eTrio\u003c\/i\u003e as a play in 1944, but it was quickly shut down because of protests. Baker died in 1968 of cancer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of short stories and a play. She is the winner of the 2000 Rea Award for the Short Story, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and five O. Henry Awards. She lives in New York City.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 21, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44818223824998,"sku":"9781590176016","price":26.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/cHED0sOK0M9781590176016.webp?v=1771916114","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/cassandra-at-the-wedding-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}