Mermaids by Patty Dann [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1986 • Ticknor & Fields

Mermaids by Patty Dann

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1986] TICKNOR & FIELDS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket has one sealed, medium sized tear, down upper front.  Otherwise, excellent. Now housed in a new HQ jacket protector.  

Book itself is like new.  Clean, mint and seemingly unread!

The coming-of-age classic that spawned the cult movie of the same name, starring Cher and Winona Ryder.

Mermaids recounts one wild year in the life of fourteen-year-old Charlotte Flax, when she and her sister Kate move with Mrs. Flax into a sleepy 1960's Massachusetts town. Mrs. Flax is a woman who wears polka-dot dresses and serves hors d'oeuvres for dinner every night, and Kate is a child who basically wants to be a fish.
And then there's Charlotte, who in Patty Dann's hands, is transformed into a young woman of infinite whim and variety. Charlotte's main ambition in life is to become a saint, preferably martyred, though she's Jewish. She's smitten with the shy young caretaker at the convent at the top of the hill. Dann has created a young girl who accepts the unkindness of the mad universe in which she's whirling and takes it on with a savage glee.

Charlotte Flax is like no one you have ever met--and someone you know very well.