Twilight Sleep - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684839644 ISBN 13: 9780684839646

Verlag: Scribner, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Wharton Edith

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Críticas:

Gore Vidal There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as "major" -- and Edith Wharton is one. New York Evening Post 1927 A brilliant and penetrating study of life in the upper social circles of New York...its people all fully and sharply characterized, its story managed with the most praiseworthy dexterity, and the whole seasoned with the acid of Mrs. Wharton's keen satire.

Reseña del editor:

Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing -- these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep. The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and emptiness of life through whatever form of "twilight sleep" they can devise or procure. And though the characters and their actions may seem more in keeping with today's society, this is still a classic Wharton tale of the upper crust and its undoing -- wittily, masterfully told.

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• Verlag: Scribner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684839644
• ISBN 13: 9780684839646
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 319