The Wild One

<p><em>The Wild One </em>by Bonnie Golightly is a 1957 novel about a sensitive perceptive teenager from a wealthy family-her father dead and her mother a dying alcoholic-who falls in and out of love with older men as she seeks to understand her developing identity. Poignant funny and captivating <em>The Wild One </em>has been compared with Françoise Sagan's <em>Bonjour Tristesse</em> and deserves a new and broader audience.</p><p></p><p><strong>This edition of <em>The Wild One </em>contains a rare profile of Bonnie Golightly based in part on an extensive interview conducted with her shortly before her death.</strong></p>