Scandal's Child by Edmund Schiddel (1962)

Scandal's Child
by Edmund Schiddel
Publisher:  Simon and Schuster
Copyright:  1962

In Scandal's Child, the author of the best-selling The Devil in Bucks County has written an even more powerful and compulsively readable novel about passions and peccadilloes in that crazy-quilt exurb of Quakers and bohemians.  At the heart of the story is a figure drawn with delicacy and compassion -- a lost child, searching for the meaning and experience of love.

To Adamville, a fashionable coeducational boarding school, comes seventeen-year-old Wreath, the child of scandal.  Her mother, a famous movie star, precipitated a tabloid sensation when she discovered her lover with Wreath.  Then she packed her daughter off to the Quaker school whose catalogue promised protection "from the distressing materialism and lax morality which characterize our time."

But beautiful and willful Wreath cannot escape the implications of her past or her own awakened instincts to know love and happiness.  She plunges headlong to her inevitable destiny, resisting the well-intentioned efforts of the school to guide her, choosing the only path her eager heart dictates.  The innuendos, the intrigues, the jealousies that she ignites involve not only the school and the nearby notorious town of Olympia, but innocent bystanders as well.

In Scandal's Child the stories of many lives are brilliantly interwoven with the satiric set-pieces and superbly observed detail for which Mr. Schiddel is noted.  A unique corner of America is again brought vividly to life by the author who has made Pennsylvania's most celebrated county, where he has lived for many years, his particular bailiwick.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover is lightly discolored and shows scuffing and shelf wear.  Pages are tanning from age.

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