Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly

Sydney: Currency Press, 1976. Presumed first edition. Paperback quarto with white spine. xi, 157 pages: b/w illustrations; 21 cm Author inscribed to title page. Previous owners name in ink to title page. Moderate soiling and yellowing to back cover. Else pages clean and binding tight. Overall very good(+). Paperback. ISBN: 0869370472

Gift inscription by author to title page Abstract: Bon-bons and Roses for Dolly is set in the Crystal Palace movie theatre, now a left-over dream factory, where for almost all of her life Dolly has sought consolation from the world. When Dolly's dream world finally crumbles she finds herself middle aged, searching desperately in the blackened mirror of the old suburban fleapit for the ghost of the girl she once was. In The Tatty Hollow story, no two versions of Tatty are alike in this conjuring of fantasies about an enigmatic, ageless blonde. A black comedy about ageing, faded beauty and accepting eccentricity. Middle-aged women -- Australia -- Drama. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts. Black humor. Comedy plays. Drama.