THE GINGER GRIFFIN

by Ann Bridge ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 11, 1934

PEKING PICNIC was an Atlantic Monthly prize winner -- and a best seller on its own account. Here's a second novel -- and it's good for quick sales and a long pull, too, for the same market as the first. Again a story of the diplomatic circle in Peking, with the central character an English girl who goes out to get over an unhappy love affair, and tumbles into another, but who finds out a good deal about herself in the process. There is a great deal more than the romance, however; there is a refreshing group of real people, there is an interesting picture of one small angle of Occidental life in the Orient, there is a great deal about horses and training ponies and racing. It's not great literature. It is not a profound psychological study. It is not an important slant on China. But it is a good yarn, and it's easy and more than pleasant reading. An ideal book for the better class circulating library, for over-the-counter summer sales, for the public library fiction circulation. Initial appropriation for promotion on first printing to be $2500.00, spread over the literary supplements, the dailies in large cities, and the magazines.

Pub Date: May 11, 1934

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1934

Categories: NONFICTION