The Recently Deflowered Girl
The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion
By Edward Gorey, Hyacinthe Phypps, and Mel Juffe
November 2009
$12.00
48 pp
4.75 x 8.75 in
Hardcover
By Edward Gorey, Hyacinthe Phypps, and Mel Juffe
Miss Hyacinthe Phypps presents a cheeky guide to post-deflowerment decorum.
Long out of print, The Recently Deflowered Girl is a tongue-in-cheek guide providing advice for that trickiest of situations. In the voice of Miss Hyachinthe Phypps, Mel Juffe's hilarious yet demure counsel is delightfully accompanied by Edward Gorey's ink and watercolor illustrations.Reviews for The Recently Deflowered Girl:
Phawker.com interview.
The Recently Deflowered Girl recently on the Los Angeles Times blog.
A nice post on the blog CoolHunting
"In sum, this is a useful and instructive manual, a necessity to any well-stocked library, and possibly the most inappropriate graduation gift since the Sex and the City box set."—Jezebel.com. Read full review,
Here's a nice post in the New York Times "Paper Cuts"Blog about The Recently Deflowered Girl..
Praise for Edward Gorey:
“An American original…one of this century’s foremost eccentric geniuses.”—Print
Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times. Gorey’s masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world.
Mel Juffe was an editor, writer, correspondent, and teacher at New York Journal-American, New York Post, Radio Free Europe, and New York University.
