Chocolates for Breakfast: A Novel
&#8220;Timeless. . . . Will surely continue to resonate with audiences for years to come.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)&#8220;In Moore&#8217;s resonating classic, sexually precocious 15-year-old Courtney, a bit of a female Holden Caulfield, copes with her parents&#8217; divorce and the splitting her life between New York and California. . . . It&#8217;s poignant, edgy, and utterly readable.&#8221; (The Atlantic Wire)&#8220;This long-overdue reprint of a scandalous 1950s coming-of-age novel chronicles the exploits of a 15-year-old girl living very much beyond her years.&#8221; (San Francisco Chronicle)&#8220;Permeated with sadness and existential longing,Chocolates for Breakfastis about the disillusionment of wealth and the desire to find something real in a society that is constantly pretending.&#8221; (Los Angeles Review of Books)&#8220;Themes of sex, love, identity and friendship withstand time. Moore may no longer be with us, but her first novel is, rightfully, back on the shelves.&#8221; (Chicago Tribune)&#8220;Charming, substantive, and smart.&#8221; (The Rumpus)&#8220;A gem of adolescent disaffection featuring a Holden Caulfield-like heroine.&#8221; (Vogue.com)&#8220;Once I started reading it, I didn&#8217;t want to stop, and it&#8217;s certainly one of the best books I&#8217;ve read all year. . . . If your all-time favorite books include works of young-adult fiction (like Catcher), I strongly urge you to take a look.&#8221; (USA Today/Pop Candy)&#8220;Enduring edge.&#8221; (Barnesandnoble.com)&#8220;A new (well, not new, but new to most of us) addition to the smart, edgy coming-of-age female lexicon. . . . Especially perfect for any too-cool Class of 2013 high school girl in your life, or someone who just is one at heart. . . . Totally unputdownable in the best way.&#8221; (Jezebel)&#8220;Shocks and shocks again.&#8221; (Glamour)&#8220;[An] appallingly frank first novel by an extraordinarily precocious artist.&#8221; (Chicago Tribune)&#8220;Not very long ago it would have been regarded as shocking to find girls in their teensreadingthe kind of books they&#8217;re now writing.&#8221; (New York Times)&#8220;This book is a sexier more cosmopolitanBell Jar--young girl, manic depression, New York, LA. It is amazing. Everyone who lovesThe Dud Avocadowill go crazy for this novel.&#8221; (Emma Straub, author ofLaura Lamont's Life in Pictures)&#8220;Found this book long ago in my parents&#8217; library, a risqu&#xE9; looking paperback--and read it so many times I had to tape the pages back in. It was every naughty thing I hoped life would be like.&#8221; (Janet Fitch, author ofWhite Oleander)&#8220;A coming-of-age novel of the most interesting variety. . . as relevant today as it did when published nearly 60 years ago, proving as shocking and important to today&#8217;s world as it did in the 1950s.&#8221; (Shelf Awareness)&#8220;In a lot of ways, Courtney Farrell is on par with Lena Dunham&#8217;s Hannah. She&#8217;s learning how to live in New York City, indulging in a mindfully crafted martini or two, and engaging in affairs with older men.&#8221; (Village Voice)