Mother of all loves [WorldCat Entities]

"Mother of All Loves both depicts the last vestiges of innocence before the onslaught of World War II and evokes the memory of that first great bewildering passion which imprints itself in most human beings for life. Thirteen-year-old Donald Pettingill comes upon thirty-year-old Lenore Horton, mother of his best friend, Arthur, sobbing on her bed one December afternoon. On the instant he falls in love with her. That event marks the end of his boyhood and the advent of his manhood."