Small-town girl Carrie Meeber arrives in Chicago with nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle--from sweatshop to stage success--and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him. Revised reissue.
This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle? from sweatshop to stage success?and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.