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News & ArtsWednesday, January 27, 2010
Books Louis Auchincloss
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM
I've only read a couple of Auchincloss's novels. The best one was The Scarlet Letters, a reimagining of Hawthorne's novel. It was a very old-fashioned, thoughtful novel: Ornate, beautiful writing about adults, responsibility, and heartbreak.
In the years since I read Letters, I've bought a bunch of Auchincloss's novels when I come across them in used bookstores for future reading. If you like Wharton or Austen, you might want to give him a try.
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Sorry to hear this. I first read Auchincloss after Gore Vidal praised his work in a 1974 article in "The New York Review of Books" and he's been a favorite ever since; his short storie are very fine too.
Vidal had this to say about Auchincloss:
"Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs."
Vidal had this to say about Auchincloss:
"Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs."
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