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by Edith Wharton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Scribner Pbk. Fiction Ed edition (24 Nov 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0684839644
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684839646
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A psychological tour-de-force in velvet gloves, a tragedy., 23 May 1999
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Wharton is as stunningly effective as in "A House of Mirth", here conveying the frustration of a circle of people interdependent upon one another, destined to follow society's rules no matter what the cost. Each character desperately clutches at a "twilight sleep"; the mode of coping each engages to distance reality. Masquerading as habit or whim, the painted veil of illusion overlays each mode of addictive escape. Nona, the beautiful, well-bred New Yorker struggles with an imperatrix sister-in-law Lita, whose values (and their consequences) threaten the entire social order Nona's family fabric is woven of. The Marchesa dispenses her social value as Pauline erases her son's debts. Lita's tabloid exposure and screen career must be suppressed. The men escape into work while the women flail at vanity of excess. The whistle of tragedy sounds in the distance as Nona falls into love with a married man, her brother Jim hopelessly esconced in a bad marriage with a woman he idolises, while her father works himself into an eagerly embraced oblivion, while Jim's father openly drinks to forget the societal oasis he knew before his divorce. Nona's mother compulsively schedules all their lives to death, while pursuing the escapist mysticism of faith healing and the blind support of the latest guru. As the Jazz Age brings down the curtain on the theatre of old New York and its values, Art and Cinema loom. While the family coalesces at their country estate to save Jim and Lita's marriage, each battle with their chosen talisman against life and its evils. Much more is at stake and much more is lost. This startlingly psychological novel will fascinate any student of life. The sacrifice of a fragment to obtain the societal whole inevitably comes, more starkly portrayed here than anywhere, the novel having served as forceful denouement. In the tolling bells of Whartons' worlds, the death of illusion sounds the deepest peal.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Flavour Of The 1920s, 17 Jun 2009
By Mrs. Elinor Nash "Anywhere But Here" (Bath, UK) - See all my reviews
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The narrative in this novel gives a wonderful evocation of life and living in New York in the 1920s, and yet it also feels modern somehow: the perils of a career driven society, given over to fads for "healthier" living. Edith Wharton makes these observations wryly and brilliantly. A really good read.
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