Beginner's Book of Dreams, The
by: Benedict, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Overweight Esme Singer eats her way into adolescence--as her beautiful, divorced mother boozes and searches for the perfect man, and her irresponsible father promises the moon but delivers nothing. "Benedict's masterful second novel evokes the anxieties of childhood and adolescence with rare clarity,'' (Publisher's Weekly)