โ Lonsdale, Kerry
๐ Fiction
๐
2020
๐ Lake Union Publishing
๐ English
โ 194 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
East Side Story A Novel: novel
โ Scribed by Louis Auchincloss
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780618452446
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and a perfect, understated knowledge of those who inhabit it," said the New York Times of The Scarlet Letters. The same can be said of Auchincloss's new novel, a tour de force that charts the rise of one uncommon family in America's grand city.
How did the families who live on Manhattan's Upper East Side get to where they are today? As much a penetrating social history as it is engaging fiction, East Side Story tells of the Carnochans, a family whose Scottish forebears establish themselves in New York's textile business during the Civil War. From there they quickly move on to seize prominent positions in the country's top schools and Manhattan's elite firms. As the novel unfolds, family members across the generations recount their stories, illuminating lives steeped in both good fortune and moral jeopardy. From women who outsmart their foolish husbands, to ambitious lawyers who protect the Carnochan name, to the family's...
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