The Living is Easy - Dorothy West

[Luke]

The Living is Easy, Dorothy West, 1948, United States, NOVEL

"...Yet if Cleo is unethical, there is a clarity in her motives that is lacking in the Boston-born society she is determined to join, an elite society consisting of light-skinned, college-educated daughters and sons of self-made businessmen who—when the money runs out—find themselves caught between their own pride and the racism of the rest of the world. Dorothy West knew the society she wrote about—in fact, many of the characters are based on real people—and her observations are both sharp-edged and empathetic."

(E.B., p. 276)