Pretty Thing Author:Robert Turner This will be Pretty Thing's year. She is a delight in the flesh, granted, but also a political thinker after a fashion. Her decaying daddy has just ended his second and last term as governor. His puerile and seductive daughter, Pretty Thing, is about to succeed him as the highest dignitary of one of our Southern States. Whilst the elections is f... more »ollowing its pre-visible course, in the din and dust of street politics, Pretty Thing is dreamily soaking in her bathtub, playing with her toy submarine...Dreaming of things she would like to reform....« less