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The Friend of Women and Other Stories
The Los Angeles Times has lauded Louis Auchincloss as "a novelist committed to examining the complicated layers of character, psychology, and society." In The Friend of Women, that dedication shines on every page in the singular, epigrammatic style of an American master.The mysteries of character are at the heart of these six previously unpublished pieces. In the...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
March 9th 2007
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Louis Auchincloss vs. George Saunders
I read CivilWarLand in Bad Decline back in February, in the first week of Wisconsin's budget battle. It was not a fun read. Oh, the stories were good, but it was difficult (and depressing) to read about Saunders's visions of a crazy dystopian future America when our own governor was firing the first shot of the ongoing Republican War On Unions.
After Saunders, though, I picked up The Friend of Women and ever-so-briefly forgot my troubles. Dys...more
I read CivilWarLand in Bad Decline back in February, in the first week of Wisconsin's budget battle. It was not a fun read. Oh, the stories were good, but it was difficult (and depressing) to read about Saunders's visions of a crazy dystopian future America when our own governor was firing the first shot of the ongoing Republican War On Unions.
After Saunders, though, I picked up The Friend of Women and ever-so-briefly forgot my troubles. Dys...more
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Told through the eyes of the three womens' a-sexual, former literature teacher and life long confidante the title story. The Friend of Women, is a biting tale of three school girl friends who happened to be born before their time. Their desire to be independent, interllectual people who are able to have minds, careers and selves of completely ones own will never be realized. Auchencloss as usual shines a light into the monied, high society of the early twentieth century and all that comes with ...more
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Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American novelist, historian, and essayist.
Among Auchincloss's best-known books are the multi-generational sagas The House of Five Talents, Portrait in Brownstone, and East Side Story. Other well-known novels include The Rector of Justin, the tale of a renowned headmaster of a school like Groton trying to deal with changing times, and The Embezzler, a l...more
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Among Auchincloss's best-known books are the multi-generational sagas The House of Five Talents, Portrait in Brownstone, and East Side Story. Other well-known novels include The Rector of Justin, the tale of a renowned headmaster of a school like Groton trying to deal with changing times, and The Embezzler, a l...more
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