The Book of Phoebe
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Author:
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Year: 1985
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385196734
Comments:
This coming-of-age novel introduces a self-confident young woman who might remind some readers of a female Holden Caulfield. When she learns she’s pregnant at nineteen, she travels to Paris to “bear fruit,” just as Fred’s oblique image might suggest.