Portrait in brownstone /
Auchincloss, Louis
Portrait in brownstone / Louis Auchincloss - First McGraw-Hill paperback edition - 320 pages ; 18 cm
Auchincloss' tale of a New York family dynasty opens with the suicide of Geraldine Brevoort, a woman whose pride and envy fed her alcoholism and kept her alone, and leads the listener through an odyssey, told in flashbacks by Geraldine's plain yet bright cousin, Ida, and Ida's husband, Derrick - also Geraldine's lover, unbeknownst to Ida - and other family members. What unfolds is the story of the intertwining lives of families from different ethnic and social backgrounds, and the misapprehensions that result when such families are brought together through love, marriage, and adultery.
0070024413 (pbk.) :
87005095
Adventure Novel
PS3501.U25 / P67 1987
813.54
Portrait in brownstone / Louis Auchincloss - First McGraw-Hill paperback edition - 320 pages ; 18 cm
Auchincloss' tale of a New York family dynasty opens with the suicide of Geraldine Brevoort, a woman whose pride and envy fed her alcoholism and kept her alone, and leads the listener through an odyssey, told in flashbacks by Geraldine's plain yet bright cousin, Ida, and Ida's husband, Derrick - also Geraldine's lover, unbeknownst to Ida - and other family members. What unfolds is the story of the intertwining lives of families from different ethnic and social backgrounds, and the misapprehensions that result when such families are brought together through love, marriage, and adultery.
0070024413 (pbk.) :
87005095
Adventure Novel
PS3501.U25 / P67 1987
813.54