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Three lives / Louis Auchincloss.

By:

Auchincloss, Louis

Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1993.Description: 213 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780395655672

Subject(s):

New York (N.Y.) -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

Frame-stories

DDC classification:

FIC AUC

LOC classification:

PS3501.U25 T48 1993

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC AUC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		033942

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.

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