A RAGE TO LIVE A Novel

N.Y.,USA : Grosset and Dunlap, 1949. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Excellent condition, paperback 1949, no marks, great cover, large wraps. When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it. Her affair scandalizes Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. A bestseller on publication in 1949, "A Rage to Live", is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.: A huge bestseller when it first appeared in 1949, A Rage to Live is a large-scale social chronicle of America set against the backdrop of Fort Penn, Pennsylvania, a city with a dynamic history, both public and personal. The Caldwells are its leading family, and Grace Caldwell Tate is the dramatic symbol of their dominance. Her avidity for life carries her through an impetuous childhood, marriage, violent extramarital affairs, scandal, disaster, and her own kind of triumphs.