An edition of Hot Saturday (1926)

Hot Saturday

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by Ben McLaughlin
July 29, 2016 | History
An edition of Hot Saturday (1926)

Hot Saturday

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

I've taken the description from the AbeBooks.com Web site. I have just begun reading the book, having obtained it through an Inter Library Loan. I got the book after seeing the film which is "pre-code".

From AbeBooks.com:The author's fourth novel, set in a small New Mexico community, concerns the events surrounding the budding romance between a frustrated young woman and a young millionaire from Back East; it takes its title from the fact that the narrative is confined to a single, sweltering hot weekend. It was billed by its publisher as "a sardonic tale," which earned the derision of the New York Times critic, who observed (in comparing the book to "Main Street") that "all that the author of [this book] has done to further the scientific study of small-town life is to set his tale within the environs of a small Far Western community, and to people his story with two or three morons." Fergusson spent some time screenwriting in Hollywood during the 1930s, and this book served as the basis for a 1932 film adaptation starring Nancy Carroll, a young Randolph Scott, and an even younger Cary Grant (the latter in the very early stage of his Hollywood career). A very scarce book, for reasons I can't quite explain.

I finished the book (July 26, 2016) and it says in the AbeBooks description "served as the basis". That being said, I saw the film and then read the book. If you know the film, it really is a very loose basis on the book. They took some of the characters and the general idea of a small town "bad" girl and went from there. The film and the book have very little in common but it was still a good read. It's not a great book. It's a book "of the time" as they say but I'm glad that I was able to find and read it.

Publish Date
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
261

Buy this book

Edition Availability
Cover of: Hot Saturday
Hot Saturday
1926, A. A. Knopf
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.F388 Ho, PS3511.E55 Ho

The Physical Object

Pagination
261 p. ;
Number of pages
261

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6692461M
LCCN
26015396
OCLC/WorldCat
4182877

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
July 29, 2016 Edited by Ben McLaughlin I changed the "when is it set" from 1920s to 1926
July 29, 2016 Edited by Ben McLaughlin I finished the book and commented on what I thought of it.
July 23, 2016 Edited by Ben McLaughlin I added (from AbeBooks.com Web site) a synopsis, added place tags and subject tags and a cover for the book and an Author picture
July 23, 2016 Edited by Ben McLaughlin Added new cover
December 10, 2009 Created by WorkBot add works page