The Long Love

New York: Pocket Books, 1968. 4th Pocket Book Printing . Mass Market. Very Good. 281 Pages. The is the August 1968 Fourth Pocket Book Printing. No defects noted to this mass market book with red page edges. Interior text pages are flawless. In 1945 there appeared the first of five novels by John Sedges, a pseudonym chosen by Pearl Buck to allow her freedom to write about the American scene. It was probably the best kept literary secret of this generation. In this John Sedges novel, a Literary Guild selection and best seller, Miss Buck tells the story of the most maligned and cherished of institutions, marriage - its trials, heartbreaks and ultimate achievements, its attainment of a happy life for two people together. For Edward Haslatt there was no thought of another woman. He loved his wife with a devotion that began with their courtship and grew with the years. Yet Margaret Haslatt had a rival more dangerous than any sloe-eyed mistress. Edward had built his father's printing shop into a thriving publishing house. He gave himself to it with all his time and energy. But for a married man there are other demands. There is a constant conflict between his wife's needs and the pressures of his work, between his temperament and hers. There are the conflicts that simmer under the surface of every male and female, conflicts that sometimes flare into a blaze of anger. This intimate story by Pearl S. Buck, world famous author, tells how one marriage survived the treacherous pitfalls faced by every man and woman who search for the long love.