Manhattan monologues / Louis Auchincloss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auchincloss, Louis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Manners and customs.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

226 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Summary:

Manhattan Monologues charts a colorful New York century through a series of personal accounts from the rarefied circle that fills Auchincloss's best short fiction. Here are characters who confidently finesse their way through society's uppermost tiers and yet are just as easily undone by the smallest upset in a day. Like all of Auchincloss's richest creations, they bump up against their consciences, with often surprising results. What, for instance, is a woman to do when she must choose between true love and high society when making a marriage? How can a man stay true to himself, his family, and his country when it goes to war? How can a determined marriage broker salvage matters when the young man she has so painstakingly steered toward a love match becomes charmed by another woman? These tales, and many more, fashion a glamorous yet all too human societal portrait -- from the aristocratic loyalties of the early twentieth century to the complicated twists of modern-day mergers and acquisitions. Manhattan Monologues is Louis Auchincloss at his most clever, his most discerning, his best.

Contents:

Old New York

All That May Become a Man 3

The Heiress 19

Harry's Brother 51

Entre Deux Guerres

The Marriage Broker 67

Collaboration 89

The Justice Clerk 111

He Knew He was Right 126

Nearer Today

The Treacherous Age 153

The Merger 170

The Scarlet Letters 186.

ISBN:

061815289X

OCLC:

48170805