HIS OWN MAN

by Marth ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

An American who has it made to his measure -- living in Paris, studying Chinese at the on a foundation grant that is renewable, and learning and loving the city, particularly the Left Bank, better than Parisians -- is led out of his routine by Jessiea de Cam, a sheltered, unmarried -- but not young -- daughter of good family. The romance, unwillingly entered into by Ben Eckhardt, stales when lively Liz Langham, careless with lovers, money and her social position, latches on to him, and her further lessons in luxury complete his from the free and detached life he had mapped out. Liz almost crosses the finish line to a marriage but when Ben learns of Jessien's pregnancy he about faces to make his legitimate. , however, turns him away, and Ben returns to find that , she has lost him, has walked out. Spoiled for his old life, his new worlds closed to him. Ben, at is left with no safe hiding place at all. From the customs of the rebels to those of the Right Bank French and English, international and Anglo-American smart set, this offers a passage to nothingness for a ""traveler in life"" in a worldly fashion.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1961

Categories: FICTION