Evvie. Paperback – January 1, by. Vera Caspary (Author) › Visit Amazon's Vera Caspary Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Vera Caspary (Author) out of 5 stars/5(11). · Worldly Evvie, a painter and dancer - supposedly married at seventeen and then divorced - is living on her alimony. Louise is a successful advertising copywriter and in love with her boss. Flouting the Prohibition, they party and enjoy a drink, and like the company of men. They're independent, making their own way in the world, beyond the. The second of Ms. Caspary's novels I have read, Evvie was marvelous. Taut and suspenseful, the characters were nuanced and masterfully textured. Written in , Capary explored the world of the late 's, capturing the recklessness and gaiety of that time/5.
"Caspary is an expert at suspense and suspicion She is also expert at evoking the flavor of a decade when martinis were drunk in coffee cups and rumbles were car seats."—The New York Times Fanny Butcher, the literary critic for the Chicago Tribune, "came out of retirement to declare it obscene—ironic judgment from today's point of view, since there are no graphic descriptions and. As the photo on the cover of Evvie by Vera Caspary, the author of the amazing mystery and movie Laura, is blurred, so is the atmosphere of the book www.doorway.run in , Evvie has a s pulp or noir mystery feel to it, although its subject would not have appeared in that genre. Evvie is set during prohibiton. Louise and Evvie, knowing each other since grade school, are sharing an apartment. Vera Louise Caspary (Novem - J) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel, Laura, was made into a successful www.doorway.ru she claimed she was not a "real" mystery writer, her novels effectively merged women's quest for identity and love with murder plots.
'Evvie,' by the author of 'Laura'Fanny Butcher, the literary critic for the Chicago Tribune, "came out of retirement to declare it obscene#x;ironic judgment from today's point of view, since there are no graphic descriptions and the most explicit allusions are in a scene in which. Vera Louise Caspary (Novem – J) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel, Laura, was made into a successful movie. Though she claimed she was not a "real" mystery writer, her novels effectively merged women's quest for identity and love with murder plots. The second of Ms. Caspary's novels I have read, Evvie was marvelous. Taut and suspenseful, the characters were nuanced and masterfully textured. Written in , Capary explored the world of the late 's, capturing the recklessness and gaiety of that time.
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