Gaunt's Daughter: 2

by Eleanor Shaler

Cordelia hasn't seen her famous actor-father since she was a little girl. She feels she can never, never forgive him for deserting her mother. But the theater is part of Cordelia's heritage. At seventeen, she is already a promising young actress. And now she is offered her first big part... in a play that will star her father.

Hardcover

Published September 15, 1957

Reviews

[Michele · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book from Book Mooch when I read the title in the list of another member's inventory & remembered the name of the book,read back when I was young (& dinosaurs roamed the earth).
All I recalled was the title & that it was about the theater. It's a very angst-y coming-of-age novel about an older teen raised with the expectation of becoming an actress & one crucial summer when she meets her father for the first time at age 17. It is typical of books written in the 1950s & worth reading for the amusement of realizing how times have changed, predictable but fun for nostalgia reasons.

[aem · Rating 3 out of 5]

Carousel storyline.