Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). 226 pages, 8vo, black cloth-backed boards with a gilt-stamped spine (upper right corner bumped), dust wrapper. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2002). A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> Inscribed on the half-title page: "For Joel Conarroe, friend & fellow centurion with all best wishes. Sincerely, Louis Auchincloss."<br/> <br/>

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He is our sublime master of manners, our "most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and "one of the essential American writers" (Kirkus). Now, in his fifty-seventh book, Louis Auchincloss delivers a brilliant collection of ten new, previously unpublished, stories; once again, he unfailingly "voices truths with elegant precision" (Publishers Weekly). MANHATTAN MONOLOGUES charts a colorful New York century through a series of personal accounts from the rarefied circle that fills Auchincloss's best short fiction. Here are characters who confidently finesse their way through society's uppermost tiers and yet are just as easily undone by the smallest upset in a day. Like all of Auchincloss's richest creations, they bump up against their consciences, with often surprising results. What, for instance, is a woman to do when she must choose between true love and high society when making a marriage? How can a man stay true to himself, his family, and his country when it goes to war? How can a determined marriage broker salvage matters when the young man she has so painstakingly steered toward a love match becomes charmed by another woman? These tales, and many more, fashion a glamorous, yet all too human, societal portrait -- from the aristocratic loyalties of the early twentieth century to the complicated twists of modern-day mergers and acquisitions. MANHATTAN MONOLOGUES is Louis Auchincloss at his most clever, his most discerning, his best.

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Bookseller: Argosy Book Store (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 254771
Title: Manhattan Monologues
Author: AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - very good(+)
Jacket Condition: very good(+)
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Trade Cloth
ISBN 10: 061815289X
ISBN 13: 9780618152896
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 2002

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