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008			140218s1993 mau 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPS3501.U25 _bT48 1993
082	0	0	_aFIC AUC
100	1		_aAuchincloss, Louis
245	1	0	_aThree lives _c/ Louis Auchincloss.
260			_aBoston _b: Houghton Mifflin _c, 1993.
300			_a213 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aThe 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.
651			_aNew York (N.Y.) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aFrame-stories
942			_cMO
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