Chocolates For Breakfast

The 1956 internationally bestselling novel-with over one million copies in English plus translations into eleven languages-by Pamela Moore, who was only eighteen when she wrote this famous debut, the astonishingly candid story of a young girl's sudden, urgent awakening to love and desire. Considered America's answer to the French sensation Bonjour Tristesse, Chocolates for Breakfast stars Courtney Farrell, a classic disaffected, sexually precocious fifteen year old. Courtney splits her time between Manhattan, where her father works in publishing, and Los Angeles, where her mother is a still-beautiful Hollywood actress, serving martinis at eleven and breakfast at noon. After a boarding school crush on a female teacher ends badly, Courtney sets out to know everything fast. Her first drink has to be a very dry martini, and her first kiss the beginning of a full-blown love affair with an older man. But she is still just a child in an adult's world...