Book #58492

Aunt Jeanne

Georges and Simenon, Geoffrey Sainsbury

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Publisher: San Diego, New York, ET AL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1950.
ISBN: 0151097925

Price: $40.00

A Fine edition housed in a Fine dust-jacket.

Aunt Jeanne is a novel by Georges Simenon and translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. The story is set in the 1930s in a small town in France. Aunt Jeanne is a spinster who has been living with her sister since their father's death. The sisters are very close and Jeanne is the caretaker of her sister's welfare. One day, Jeanne's sister dies and Jeanne is left alone. She is forced to take a job at the local paper mill to support herself. Jeanne is very sad and lonely and begins to drink heavily. Eventually, she is arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct.; 8vo; 154 pages; 7.