Two sensitive and funny portraits of young women determined to be artists and coming of age in the late 1950s, M. B. Goffstein's novels for young adults are available again-published together for the first time in one volume.
Drawing from the author's own life experience, The Underside of the Leaf and Daisy Summerfield's Style are both about the journeys of girls from the Midwest, as they explore the boundaries of their lives and talent. In each, New York City plays a powerful part particularly the artistic and bohemian center, Greenwich Village.
Enjoyable simply as fiction, the setting of time period and place creates an additional dimension. It is a view into the lives of young women seeking to define themselves apart from men and family approval. Suitable for middle-grade readers, adults will equally love these two women's stories.
This is one of four volumes in the collected writing of M. B. Goffstein series: Words Alone: Twenty-Six Books Without Pictures, Art Girls Together: Two Novels, Daisy Summerfield's Art: The Complete Flea Market Mysteries, and Biography of Miss Go Chi: Novelettos & Poems
Two sensitive and funny portraits of young women determined to be artists and coming of age in the late 1950s, M. B. Goffstein's novels for young adults are available again-published together for the first time in one volume.
The Underside of the Leaf
"Funny in a bittersweet way." -Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (recommended)
"Playing with paper dolls one moment and imagining vague sexual encounters the next-a memorable portrait." -Book World
Daisy Summerfield's Style
"[Daisy Summerfield is] determined to become an honest artist, and the detailing of her life, culminating in a sweet surprise, makes the book a real page-turner." -Publishers Weekly
"For someone whose idea of style even in 1959 is to change her first name and stick matching cardboard daisies on her luggage, Daisy Summerfield comes a long way in short time. You'll like her from the start though, this wide-eyed Midwesterner . . . It's a proper fairy-tale ending, confirming for the skeptical that Daisy is an artist indeed-but by then it couldn't be clearer that the real joy is all in getting there." -Kirkus Reviews
Praise for the first edition of The Underside of the Leaf
"Funny in a bittersweet way."-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (Recommended)
"Playing with paper dolls one moment and imagining vague sexual encounters the next-a memorable portrait."-Book World
Praise for the first edition of Daisy Summerfield's Style
"[Daisy Summerfield is] determined to become an honest artist, and the detailing of her life, culminating in a sweet surprise, makes the book a real page-turner."-Publishers Weekly
"For someone whose idea of style even in 1959 is to change her first name and stick matching cardboard daisies on her luggage, Daisy Summerfield comes a long way in a short time. You'll like her from the start though, this wide-eyed Midwesterner . . . It's a proper fairy-tale ending, confirming for the skeptical that Daisy is an artist indeed-but by then it couldn't be clearer that the real joy is all in getting there."-Kirkus Reviews
