Cocotte

Theodore Pratt, the author of this searching story, is a quiet, scholarly man with a gift for writing books that explode.

Last year we published his novel The Tormented, the story of a nymphomaniac. The distinguished psychiatrist Richard H. Hoffmann called it “a true picture of a woman chained by unsatiable, never-ending desire.”

Now Mr. Pratt has done it again. In Cocotte, he has written of a sensitive young American of good family who, on his first visit to Paris, marries a girl of the streets. What happens to them when he brings her back to America makes a story as frank and moving as The Tormented.

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