Invitation to the Waltz - Softcover

Lehmann, Rosamond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156453843 ISBN 13: 9780156453844

Publisher: Harcourt, 1975

Synopsis

Rosamond Lehmann's enduring classic, told from the point of view of its seventeen-year-old heroine, who has been invited to her first dance

Today is Olivia Curtis's seventeenth birthday. In exactly one week, she will attend her first dance. She is thrilled . . . and terrified. Will Tony Heriot ask her to dance? Will he even remember that they once attended the same costume party? What will she wear? Something bright and beautiful--red silk? In the handsome diary she receives as a gift, Olivia shares her innermost doubts and fears--about her pretty, confident older sister, Kate, her precocious baby brother, James, her eccentric country neighbors, and of course, the upcoming party, which she is sure will be the crowning event of her young life.

Divided into three parts--Olivia's birthday, the day leading up to the party, and the breathtaking event itself--Invitation to the Waltz masterfully captures the conflicting emotions of a teenager on the threshold of womanhood. Will this be the night when all of Olivia's dreams come true?

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Review:

"The kind of novel that Keats might have written." --Alfred Noyes "Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love." --Margaret Drabble "A novelist in the grand tradition . . . an innovator . . . the first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions." --Anita Brookner "No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann." --Marghanita Laski

The kind of novel that Keats might have written. Alfred Noyes Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love. Margaret Drabble A novelist in the grand tradition... an innovator... the first writer to filter her stories through a woman s feelings and perceptions. Anita Brookner No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann. Marghanita Laski"

Utterly charming and so deperately true that it almost hurts "The New York Times" The kind of novel that Keats might have written. Alfred Noyes Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love. Margaret Drabble A novelist in the grand tradition... an innovator... the first writer to filter her stories through a woman s feelings and perceptions. Anita Brookner No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann. Marghanita Laski"

"Utterly charming and so deperately true that it almost hurts" --The New York Times

"The kind of novel that Keats might have written." --Alfred Noyes

"Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love." --Margaret Drabble

"A novelist in the grand tradition . . . an innovator . . . the first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions." --Anita Brookner

"No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann." --Marghanita Laski

Book Description:

An extraordinary tale of a girl's rite of passage into adult life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0156453843
• ISBN 13: 9780156453844
• Binding: Paperback