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Chargement... The Dark Ladypar Louis Auchincloss
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I found it fun for the first three-quarters of the book, in a can't-believe-these-characters-and-their-scheming kind of entertaining way. But then I got to the last section, where the scheming became mean and ratcheted up quite a bit. It seemed, to me, very different from what came before. Political whisper campaigns and Joe McCarthy influences tainted it all for me. It wasn't just a good read to pass the time, anymore. The last section contains an unforgettable, though very brief, suicide scene. Reading this also reminded me that I need to have a dictionary at hand whenever I read Auchincloss (odalisque, exiguous, vicereine, to name a few). ( ) The Dark Lady 1930's and people socialize and lots of discussions of paintings found in the homes they have parties in. He had no idea the woman loved him, lots of talk of mistresses and affairs-it's common knowledge and somewhat recognized as being ok to do. Details of their pasts as teens details bring us up to date and help understand why they do the things they do. Lawyers and lots of money gives them the right to have who they want, divorces, etc. Clarksons, Steins, related by marriage: one family is Jewish, one is Irish Catholic and their kids are thrown together at times, never had met them prior over the years. I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). Another perfectly fine book by Auchincloss - but not his best. First off, there were voluminous references to specific moments and characters and motivations from Shakespeare plays and sonnets that left me behind since i am not a scholar or even necessarily a fan of Shakespeare....thus, i felt somewhat excluded from the finer nuances of what was being said. However, it was quick read and i certainly was interested in the few surprise twists and always was interested in what happened next. I do enjoy immersing myself into that Wharton/Auchincloss world of the very wealthy and will happily continue through my Auchincloss collection! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: The offices, penthouses, and suburban chateaux of New York are the setting for Louis Auchincloss's The Dark Lady. Spanning three decades from the 1930s to the McCarthy era, the novel chronicles a powerful woman's rise and the human toll it exacts. In a world where birth and style count nearly as much as wealth, Elesina Dart is supremely equipped to star. Lovely, well-born, bright, even moderately talented as an actress, Elesina seems perversely bent on canceling out these advantages. After two destructive marriages and an affair with alcohol, she is close to low ebb when Ivy Trask takes heron. Ivy's business is the exercise of power, as editor of the fashion-arbitrating Tone magazine and in her own loveless life. In Elesina, she finds material worthy of her best efforts. Stage-managed by Ivy, Elesina makes a widely successful and equally scandalous match with Judge Irving Stein, banker, connoisseur, collector â?? and old enough to know better, as all who are close to him point out. Mistress of Broad-lawns, living's Westchester estate, and caretaker of his fabulous art collection are roles Elesina takes in stride. Forall his riches and influence, Irving is a man of deep sensibility, a romantic â?? as is David, his attractive youngest son, whose passion for his stepmother leads to tragic consequences. Inevitably, husband, lover, and friend all fall victim to Elesina's need for the center stage, which she has come to see as her manifest destiny. In this major new novel, Louis Auchincloss examines the many faces of ambition and desire that rule both the schemers and dreamers of fashionable society. It is a story that only Auchincloss, with his exceptional knowledge and insight, could write Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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