{"product_id":"chocolates-for-breakfast-9780062246912","title":"Chocolates for Breakfast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A gem of adolescent disaffection featuring a Holden Caulfield-like heroine.\" -- Vogue.com\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop. . . . If your all-time favorite books include works of young-adult fiction (like \u003cem\u003eCatcher\u003c\/em\u003e), I strongly urge you to take a look.\" -- \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\/Pop Candy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA riveting coming-of-age classic, \u003cem\u003eChocolates for Breakfast\u003c\/em\u003e became an international sensation upon its initial publication in 1956, and still stands out as a shocking and moving account of the way teenagers collide, often disastrously, against love and sex for the first time. This edition includes a foreword by author Emma Straub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCourtney Farrell is a disaffected, sexually precocious fifteen-year-old. She splits her time between Manhattan, where her father works in publishing, and Los Angeles, where her mother is a still-beautiful Hollywood actress. After a boarding-school crush on a female teacher ends badly, Courtney sets out to learn everything fast. Her first drink is a very dry martini, and her first kiss the beginning of a full-blown love affair with an older man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoore, Pamela:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePamela Moore was an American writer educated at Rosemary Hall and Barnard College. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eChocolates for Breakfast\u003c\/em\u003e, was published when she was eighteen and became an international bestseller. Moore went on to write four more novels, but none of these enjoyed the success of her first. She died in 1964 at the age of twenty-six, while at work on her final, unpublished novel, \u003cem\u003eKathy on the Rocks\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513763434770,"sku":"9780062246912","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_02c377a3-3bac-4b17-beda-3252483f7afa.jpg?v=1730966613","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chocolates-for-breakfast-9780062246912","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}