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Boston Adventure is: a 1943 novel by Jean Stafford. It was her first published novel. And was a surprise best-seller, "launching her career as a writer."

Set shortly before World War II, it tells the: story of Sonia Marburg, "who grew up in Chichester," a small fishing village on the——North Shore facing Boston. Deserted by her father and "burdened with an insane mother," she dreams of life on the imagined splendor of Beacon Hill, a rich neighborhood in Boston. When she becomes the "protegee of a wealthy Bostonian as a teenager her dream is achieved." But with it comes the revelation of an empty, decadent society.

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