Three lives
Auchincloss, Louis
Three lives / Louis Auchincloss. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1993. - 213 p. ; 22 cm.
The writer of these stories, a former lawyer and prolific author of fiction and nonfiction, again uses his knowledge of law and upper-class New York society to present in his inimitably elegant style three sympathetic characters. Wealthy Nat Chisolm, whose remorseless grasping after pleasure illustrates the tale ``The Epicurean,'' eventually finds life emotionally unsatisfying; Alida Vermeule, ``The Realist,'' uses her restricted station in life to shape her husband's career; and George Manville, ``The Stoic,'' shields himself from human contact by wrapping himself in the ascetic certainties of commerce. Challenged intellectually and morally by their dilemmas, and shaped by the demands of their society, Auchincloss's protagonists wrangle with their destiny.
9780395655672
92027588
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
Frame-stories
PS3501.U25 / T48 1993
FIC AUC
Three lives / Louis Auchincloss. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1993. - 213 p. ; 22 cm.
The writer of these stories, a former lawyer and prolific author of fiction and nonfiction, again uses his knowledge of law and upper-class New York society to present in his inimitably elegant style three sympathetic characters. Wealthy Nat Chisolm, whose remorseless grasping after pleasure illustrates the tale ``The Epicurean,'' eventually finds life emotionally unsatisfying; Alida Vermeule, ``The Realist,'' uses her restricted station in life to shape her husband's career; and George Manville, ``The Stoic,'' shields himself from human contact by wrapping himself in the ascetic certainties of commerce. Challenged intellectually and morally by their dilemmas, and shaped by the demands of their society, Auchincloss's protagonists wrangle with their destiny.
9780395655672
92027588
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
Frame-stories
PS3501.U25 / T48 1993
FIC AUC
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