Portrait of Jennie - Softcover

Nathan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440970520 ISBN 13: 9780440970521

Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books by Dell Publlishing Co., 1979

Synopsis

Vintage love story novel

About this title

About the Author:

ROBERT NATHAN (1894-1985) was born in New York City and educated at private schools in the United States and Switzerland. While attending Harvard, where he was a classmate of E. E. Cummings, he was an editor of the Harvard Monthly, in which his first stories and poems appeared. After becoming a full-time writer, Nathan's work strengthened his reputation with both the public and peers. F. Scott Fitzgerald once referred to Nathan as his favorite writer. Five of his novels have been made into films, including Portrait of Jennie and The Bishop's Wife. Nathan ultimately authored more than fifty volumes of novels, poetry, and plays, and from this body of distinguished work he acquired a reputation as a master of satiric fantasy.

Review:

''So brilliant is Nathan's execution that one is entirely lost in the tender love story of two immortally designed for each other, one a spirit out of the past seeking to catch up with the present, the other a man rooted in the present and caught in an urgency to accept the gift of the past . . . Portrait of Jennie will perhaps most vividly recall Balderston's Berkeley Square, for, like that, it is a love story that transcends the boundaries of time. It is told with tenderness and with beauty. Its mood lingers in the heart, and its planes challenge the mind.'' --New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books by Dell Publlishing Co.
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0440970520
• ISBN 13: 9780440970521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124