The Custom of the Country (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
528
Utgivningsdatum
1997-08-01
Förlag
Scribner
Medarbetare
Wolfe, Cynthia Griffin (introd.)
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
201 x 134 x 33 mm
Vikt
422 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780684825885

The Custom of the Country

av Edith Wharton
Häftad,  Engelska, 1997-08-01
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For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Edith Whartons compulsively readable 20th century classic about the conquests of Undine Spragg, the glamorous and insatiable social climbernow with a new introduction by Brandon Taylor. Undine Spragg is beautifulanyone in New York will admit to as much. But what is the point of beauty if no one can see you? The Spraggs left the Midwest in search of a glamorous life for their daughter. Now, cooped up in a gilded uptown hotel they can barely afford, they begin to fear their move to the big city was for naught. But Undine is determined. And Undine always gets her way. What follows is a tactical climb to the pinnacle of affluence and early 20th-century high society that will amaze and mortify. Witty and devasting, The Custom of the Country is an astute comedy of manners and a scathing satire of upper-class life that bites to this day. More than a century after its original publication, Edith Whartons 1913 masterpiece remains an un-put-downable showcase for one of the most memorable, controversial anti-heroines in American literature.
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Praise for Edith Wharton and Custom of the Country For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine Whartons portrait of [her] is so acute that it frequently flickers across time into the contemporary.Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Prescient In this new Gilded Age, when the disparities between rich and poor are again, and disastrously, as great as they were in Whartons time, we could do with such a novelist, a cultural anthropologist who might hold up a mirror to our failings and our future, with eagle-eyed clarity and a small measure of compassion.Claire Messud, The New York Times Style Magazine There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as major, and Edith Wharton is one.Gore Vidal Wharton is an amusingly ruthless observer of the manners and mores of the wealthy.Jay McInerney, The Week

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Edith Wharton (18621937) was an American novelistthe first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New Yorks elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

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