Louis Auchincloss

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...

Gleichermaßen teuflisch wie betörend, ist Clara Hoyt einfach unvergesslich. Nur einen romantischen Irrtum wird sie in ihrem Leben begehen...

At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss - enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh - had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself....

As much a penetrating social history as it is engaging fiction, East Side Story tells of the Carnochans, a family whose Scottish forebears establish themselves in New York's textile business during the Civil War....