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Auchincloss, Louis TALES OF YESTERYEAR CL
Boston Houghton Mifflin 25-Mar-94 039569132X / 9780395691328 N Hardcover
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Beneath the tidy surfaces of moneyed lives seethe overweening ambition, marital warfare, self-delusion, greed, sibling rivalry and sexual secrets in these eight diverse stories by the noted author of, most recently, Three Lives . Set in various decades of this century, the tales reveal a master storyteller deftly deflating hypocrisy, insatiable egos and the pretensions of some cruel, unfeeling characters. In &doublequote;The Poetaster,&doublequote; a wealthy 42-year-old industrialist, discreetly taking refuge at an expensive sanitorium after being unmasked as the maker of lewd telephone calls to pretty girls in 1950s-era Southampton, Long Island, chronicles the disintegration of his life after he sacrificed his dreams of becoming a poet-painter. &doublequote;A Day and Then a Night&doublequote; shows an idealistic young literary scholar, determined to enlist in the fight against Hitler even before the U.S. has entered the war, clashing with his isolationist parents. The 1960s counterculture serves as a backdrop to &doublequote;The Man of Good Will,&doublequote; in which an alienated, drug-derailed college senior goes over the edge when he learns the identity of his biological father. Though his style is rather attenuated at times, Auchincloss's keen social observation, pitch-perfect dialogue and gift for dramatic confrontation are as effective as ever. &newline;Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;This is a literate, urbane collection of eight short stories from veteran author Auchincloss. Depicting the lifestyles of America's wealthiest families, Auchincloss probes beneath surface relationships to explore the depths of human passions. In &doublequote;Man of Good Will,&doublequote; a controlling grandfather cannot save his grandson from committing suicide rather than serve in Vietnam. In &doublequote;The Lotos Eaters,&doublequote; a couple must examine their true feelings about marriage after living an ideal existence on a Florida island. &doublequote;To My Beloved Wife&doublequote; concerns a woman in conflict with her husband's values, causing strife in the family. In &doublequote;Priestess and Acolyte,&doublequote; a famous Broadway star refuses the love of a younger man whom she might have saved from destruction. Ranging from the salons in Manhattan and Paris to the playgrounds on Long Island, Auchincloss spans the 20th-century milieu of the privileged classes in America. Recommended for general collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/93.&newline;- Stephanie Furtsch, Purchase Free Lib., N.Y.&newline;Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Auchincloss, Louis The Atonement and Other Stories
Boston Houghton Mifflin 19-Sep-97 395868262 N Hardcover
From Library Journal&newline;Chronicler of the upper crust, Auchincloss has written 53 books in the last 50 years, and there's no stopping him. This new offering is his first collection of short fiction since his Collected Stories (LJ 11/15/94) was published.&newline;Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;Entertainment Weekly&newline;In this PC world, Auchincloss' crisp, confident tales of the WASP elite almost qualify as guilty pleasures. These 12 stories, published to coincide with the prolific author's 80th birthday, will satisfy longtime fans and initiates alike with their portraits of investment bankers, lawyers, and socialites testing the limits of silver-plated social niches.
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Auchincloss, Louis Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age
Scribner Book Company May-89 684191121 N Hardcover
From Publishers Weekly&newline;In the felicitous style of his many novels and other nonfiction titles, Auchincloss examines the lives of New York's &doublequote;acceptable&doublequote; families, the privileged wealthy, in the period 1880-1920. His close connections to their descendants--and his wide reading--inform these lively anecdotal histories of business-dominated, pseudo-aristocracy in democratic America. Dubbed The Four Hundred (the number of guests accommodated in Mrs. William Astor's ballroom), the &doublequote;elite&doublequote; were heirs of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt or merchant John Jacob Astor, among others. As Auchincloss reveals, the newly rich husbands excelled in amassing millions and their wives, in unrestrained spending. The families' aims were self-indulgence and to outdo each other in building magnificent dwellings where they threw parties incredible in cost and absurdity. In certain instances, these profiles mitigate unsavory reputations, but the author condemns outright certain irredeemable characters. He says of Jay Gould that &doublequote;he would have felt quite comfortable on our Wall Street of 1989.&doublequote; And he relates the story of Alva Smith Vanderbilt who beat her children viciously and sold her 17-year-old daughter Consuelo to the money-grubbing Duke of Marlborough. With more pleasure one reads about the shining lights of the belle epoque : Edith Wharton, Henry James, the Adams brothers (kin of the Presidents); artists John Singer Sargent, Louis Tiffany, Sanford White et al. It's nicer still to find diamond-studded Mrs. Astor smiling at the remark, &doublequote;You look like a chandelier.&doublequote; She was amused but must have known: &doublequote;It was the beginning of a new era. And the end of hers.&doublequote; Illustrated. &newline;Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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