Do I Wake or Sleep

BOLTON, Isabel (pseudonym of Mary Britton Miller)

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1946

About this Item

First edition. Narrow tape remnant on front fly where an article was originally affixed, a good copy in good dustwrapper with some modest loss at the spine ends. The first volume of the author's *New York Mosaic* trilogy. Miller was in her sixties when she published the first of these novels under the name Isabel Bolton. It was praised by Edmund Wilson in *The New Yorker*, who was reportedly greatly disappointed when he met this bright new star in the literary firmament expecting a brilliant and romantic young writer, and instead meeting an amiable "older woman." Diana Trilling wrote of Bolton, after the publication of her second novel, *The Christmas Tree*, that ". she is the best woman writer of fiction in this country today." However Bolton had all but disappeared from the literary landscape by the time of her death in 1975. With the reissue of the trilogy in 1998 her work is once again getting the attention of serious critics. All three novels are set in New York City and the appeal of Miller's novels bears some resemblance to those of Dawn Powell. A fragile wartime title. Seller Inventory # 464010

Bibliographic Details

Title: Do I Wake or Sleep

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1946

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition