The Young Apollo (ePub)
And Other Stories
(Sprache: Englisch)
Short stories from a New York Times-bestselling author, in settings ranging from Edwardian garden parties to 1970s Manhattan.
While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their characters' less...
While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their characters' less...
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Short stories from a New York Times-bestselling author, in settings ranging from Edwardian garden parties to 1970s Manhattan.
While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their characters' less than savory ambitions and desires. In the title story, an older man eulogizes his young friend-a muse to the artists he gathered around himself-only to reveal that despite the young man's burgeoning reputation as a poet, he could only inspire genius, but not produce it. The Young Apollo and Other Stories takes us inside upper-class lives, crystallizing a world now gone but forever fixed in our romantic imaginations, uncovering its flaws and all too human foibles, as well as its considerable charms.
"This elegant . . . collection continues [Auchincloss's] unflinching examination of New York's wealthy socialite class." -Library Journal
"Auchincloss has a talent for pulling the curtain back on perfection, for peering behind the sublime facade." -The Seattle Times
While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their characters' less than savory ambitions and desires. In the title story, an older man eulogizes his young friend-a muse to the artists he gathered around himself-only to reveal that despite the young man's burgeoning reputation as a poet, he could only inspire genius, but not produce it. The Young Apollo and Other Stories takes us inside upper-class lives, crystallizing a world now gone but forever fixed in our romantic imaginations, uncovering its flaws and all too human foibles, as well as its considerable charms.
"This elegant . . . collection continues [Auchincloss's] unflinching examination of New York's wealthy socialite class." -Library Journal
"Auchincloss has a talent for pulling the curtain back on perfection, for peering behind the sublime facade." -The Seattle Times
Autoren-Porträt von Louis Auchincloss
In 2000, Louis Auchincloss was honored as a "Living Landmark" by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. During his long career he wrote more than sixty books, including the story collection Manhattan Monologues and the novel The Rector of Justin. The former president of the Academy of Arts and Letters, he resided in New York City until his death in January 2010.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Louis Auchincloss
- 2018, 256 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-10: 0547760612
- ISBN-13: 9780547760612
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2018
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 0.54 MB
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Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"An excellent collection of 12 previously unpublished stories display the author's usual precision and ease, wit and moral scrupulousness." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review"This elegant new collection continues [Auchincloss's] unflinching examination of New York's wealthy socialite class." —Library Journal
"Auchincloss has a talent for pulling the curtain back on perfection, for peering behind the sublime facade." —The Seattle Times
"There is enormous pleasure and insight to be derived from [Auchincloss'] work." —Philadelphia Inquirer
"[Auchincloss's] old-fashioned sensibility remains charming, even refreshing in an era of literati hipsters." —Los Angeles Times
"These stories entertain and sometimes truly reward the reader." —New York Sun
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