The Victory of Stuffed Dolls

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Verna Cable's first published work (1949). Long out of print and highly sought after by AA historians and Pin-up collectors alike. The Victory of Stuffed Dolls was Verna's thinly veiled biographical story of a beautiful young women who shakes up the establishment of her ritzy Ivy league college, finding love and passion along the way, leaving a trail of stuttering profs, jilted quaterbacks and two (maybe three) suicides.

The stuffed dolls of the title refer to one of Verna's endless sexual analogies or euphemisms. Sexually liberated long to early, Cables brand of clinical erotica proves to be oddly touching to technical writers and people in the funeral industry.

Many of the ideals obssessed over by the main Characters of The Victory of Stuffed Dolls foreshadow the major themes of Cable's opus We will wear pants or nothing at all.