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The Happy Time by Robert Fontaine. Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin CATALOG INFO: Publisher: Simon and Schuster, A Venture Press Books, 1945 ATTRIBUTES: Hardcover with no dust jacket FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING. 269 pages plus About Author. Charming black & white illustrations by Roger Duvoisin, some full page. Wartime Statement present on copyright page. CONDITION: EXCELLENT with light age toning to page edges. Scuffs to paste-on title along spine. Corner with head & tail bumps to cloth covers. . . . $19.90 + 🚢🔆Claim by commenting "ME" or "MINE". Visit #claimitMINE for more of our shop items and our purchase & shop policy info. Robert Louis Fontaine was in his early 30s when he wrote, this his first full length book. One readers says of Happy Time: " I found that I tried to read this book slowly so as to enjoy it as much as I could. You would do the same." "Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert, who's blind to the attentions of an American neighbor girl, because he's infatuated with the beautiful new maid, fleeing life as a magician's assistant. Robert's mother bemoans some of the Bonnard family male role models available to Robert: his party animal grandfather, roguish traveling salesman uncle Desmond, and an uncle who carries a water cooler filled with wine everywhere while his wife does all the work. As Desmond's temporarily off the road, he also targets the maid. Fontaine's Happy Time was wildly popular - first turned it into a hit play by Samuel A. Taylor and then made into a movie in 1952 and directed by the award-winning director Richard Fleischer. The film starred Charles Boyer and Louis Jourdan as his father and uncle respectively. The play was also adapted into a musical in 1968 by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb, and librettist N. Richard Nash, and starred Robert Goulet." --W & A #TheHappyTime #RobertFontaine #RogerDuvoisin Classic Literature Illustrated Humor #1920s Comedy Funny Made into Play Movie 1940 1950 Family Art History #firsteditionbooks #booksales #bookworm #booklover | Collecting Collection Collectable | ref: bk_MRY_happy1 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2nmb8xAsYg/?igshid=1ium5xud3cq67

"She lay in the box, her head out of one end, her legs out of the other. She was smiling, looked so beautiful and brave. She did not seem troubled at all when the saw cut through her. But with my own eyes I had seen the saw go through and I had seen her face turn white. Perhaps this man and woman did not have the same bumps on their backs as I had." #RobertFontaine

We are showing new works by Peter Combe @artpalmbeach. The fair is open to the public until Sunday. Booth 121. @petercombe_art. #artpalmbeach #palmbeach #robertfontainegallery #robertfontaine #rauschenberg #arman #keithharing

#arman, #violon #fossile (#fossil #violin) on view @robertfontainegallery till January 6th. #robertfontainegallery #robertfontaine #miami #wynwood

#arman, #burned #violin in plexiglas, on view @robertfontainegallery till January 6th. #robertfontaine #robertfontainegallery #miami #wynwood

#arman #concerto on view @robertfontainegallery till January 6th. #robertfontainegallery #robertfontaine #miami #wynwood

Regram from @instagram. "I can see some kind of haunting beauty in these forgotten items," says British artist Nick Gentry (@nickgentryart), about the obsolete items like computer disks, film negatives, and x-rays that he collects from strangers and then assembles into human forms. "These materials combine to form a composition of interconnected histories. In a sense none of us has a singular identity because who we are is purely the result of who we have connected with." Nick describes his ambivalence towards this human machinery. "There's a certain vulnerability to being human," he says. "We are entirely dependent on the objects we create around us, increasingly so with regards to technology. The fascinating and possibly scary part for me is that it's more like we are building this machine that we don't know how to stop." #robertfontaine #robertfontainegallery #miami #wynwood