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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. While it was certainly Auchincloss' work, this one just did not do it for me.....mildly interesting......a bunch of intriguing characters - New York Society as seen through narrator Christopher's life from childhood to late middle age and his constant connection with his mother's Book Class......but the glimmers of true interest were brief. I've read a ton of his books, and like most of them very much. It just did not really go anywhere.....no regrets.....a quick read..... ( ) Aa friend of mine once remarked succinctly that all of Louis Auchincloss' books were really the same work. There is much truth to that. That is not necessarily a bad thing, if it means that you write with technical skill, and write about what you know. But it can be a really bummer if your life is, after all, pretty dull -- which is about the kindest thing lone can say about the upper-bourgeois ladies in this opus. Christopher, the narrator of The Book Class, relates his memories of the members of his mother's sixty-year-long book club. He begins by claiming that "women are intellectually and intuitively superior to men," and the stories about the various women he relates illustrate that superiority. Auchincloss's writing is fine, and he invokes well the world of these (mostly) upper-class New York women of the early and mid-twentieth century, but ultimately the novel didn't quite hold together for me. I found my attention wandering often, perhaps because what placed these women together in one novel was a theme rather than a strong narrative drive. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A rich tapestry of life, passion, triumph, tragedy, and illumination unfolds against the backdrop of the Book Class, twelve women from the heights of New York society who meet monthly over sixty years to discuss selected literary works. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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