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From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his long-awaited new novel, HER INFINITE VARIETY. Louis Auchincloss has been called "our most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" (Washington Post Book World). Now he brings us the rollicking tale of an unforgettable woman of mid-twentieth century America: the devilish, forever plotting, yet wholly beguiling Clara Hoyt.
A romantic early in life, Clara gets engaged -- much to her mother's horror -- to the lackluster Bobbie Lester. Soon after her Vassar graduation, however, Clara sees the error of her ways, spurns Bobbie, and slyly enthralls the well-bred and fabulously wealthy Trevor Hoyt, the first of her husbands. Soon she lands a job at a tony magazine, and so begins her wildly entertaining course to the inner sanctum of New York's aristocracy and into the boardrooms of the publishing world.
In a world where women still had to wield the weapons of allure and charm, above all else, to secure positions of power, Clara, one of the last of her kind, succeeds marvelously. Auchincloss gives us, in Clara, an irresistible Cleopatra, lovely, wily, and mercurial. As Shakespeare wrote of that feminine creation, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety."
A romantic early in life, Clara gets engaged -- much to her mother's horror -- to the lackluster Bobbie Lester. Soon after her Vassar graduation, however, Clara sees the error of her ways, spurns Bobbie, and slyly enthralls the well-bred and fabulously wealthy Trevor Hoyt, the first of her husbands. Soon she lands a job at a tony magazine, and so begins her wildly entertaining course to the inner sanctum of New York's aristocracy and into the boardrooms of the publishing world.
In a world where women still had to wield the weapons of allure and charm, above all else, to secure positions of power, Clara, one of the last of her kind, succeeds marvelously. Auchincloss gives us, in Clara, an irresistible Cleopatra, lovely, wily, and mercurial. As Shakespeare wrote of that feminine creation, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety."
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- Title Her Infinite Variety
- Author Auchincloss, Louis
- Binding Trade Cloth
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 224
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 2000-08-08
- ISBN 9780618021918
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"Another fine chapter in Auchincloss's ongoing fictional chronicle of the American century." Kirkus Reviews
"This is a modern book with old-fashioned virtues: a compelling plot, vivid characters, and marvelous scenery, all described in Auchincloss's rich and precise prose. He's a master!" -- Susan Cheever
"One of the century's very best American writers." The Los Angeles Times
"The last, best chronicler of [a] small, but shiny, sliver of society." The Chicago Tribune
"...his unsparing portrait of an ambitious woman has vitality and credibility, and it voices truths with elegant precision." --Andrew Pope Publishers Weekly, Starred
"This is a modern book with old-fashioned virtues: a compelling plot, vivid characters, and marvelous scenery, all described in Auchincloss's rich and precise prose. He's a master!" -- Susan Cheever
"One of the century's very best American writers." The Los Angeles Times
"The last, best chronicler of [a] small, but shiny, sliver of society." The Chicago Tribune
"...his unsparing portrait of an ambitious woman has vitality and credibility, and it voices truths with elegant precision." --Andrew Pope Publishers Weekly, Starred
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