About the Author

DOROTHY DODDS BAKER (1907-1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, and raised in California. After having a few short stories published, Baker turned to writing full-time, and in 1938 she published Young Man with a Horn, which earned critical praise and eventually became a movie. She received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1942 and, the next year, published Trio, a novel whose frank portrayal of a lesbian relationship proved too scandalous for the times. DEBORAH EISENBERG is the author of four collections of short stories and a play. She is the winner of the 2000 Rea Award for the Short Story, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Lannan Foundation fellowship, and five O. Henry Awards. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

Knowing, wise and a cracking read. Irish Independent An important achievement...intoxicating fun. Lillian Smith [Baker's] ear for dialogue is acute, her prose immaculate...this is a novel of exceptional quality." Times Literary Supplement I-whose usual bed time is ten o'clock-stayed up all night reading that exquisite Cassandra at the Wedding-dazzled by the pyrotechnics of such an artist. I can only think back to Young Man with a Horn, and be overwhelmed by Dorothy Baker's continuing brilliance. Carson McCullers Belongs with Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and McCullers's Member of the Wedding as a modern American classic. Georgia Hammick A brilliantly told story...remarkably subtle...inexporably lucid. The New York Times 'these marvellous books are witty and assured. Her tone is dark but jaunty, the writing off-handedly smart.' London Review of Books