Never Give the Heart
| Year of Publication |
1951
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
346 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
Random House
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| City |
Boston
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| Abstract |
Anton, 28, is a rich, pretty, self-centered Sewickley housewife who struggles to be happy. “This has much compassion for the problems of the poor little rich people,” says Kirkus Reviews, “all this in Fitzgeraldian sympathy, with some of the gilt.” “For Sewickley,” says the Women’s Page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “there are family names in it—Chapin and Shriver, for example. And those closely familiar with Sewickley Valley landmarks will do some talking about whose house and what country club and whose children were involved in the author’s planning.”
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| Author Biography |
Harriet Ann Willets Boyd (1919-2000), born in Sewickley, Allegheny County, studied painting at the University of Florence and writing at Columbia University. During World War II, in Europe and North Africa she briefed and debriefed intelligence officers for the Office of Strategic Services, experience that she used for her second novel, Sting of Glory (1954). In 1954 Willets married William Boyd, also of Sewickley, a Vice President of Pittsburgh National Bank. She was active with the Women's Committee of the Carnegie Museum of Art and the board of Pressley Ridge Schools. Her third book is a history of Sewickley Academy on its 150th anniversary. She is buried in Belmont, New York.
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| Time |
1940s
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