The Mother's Recompense by Auchincloss, Louis

The Mother's Recompense (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684825311)

Vendor: Edith Wharton
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Format: Paperback
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The Mother's Recompense by Auchincloss, Louis

The Mother's Recompense

$18.99
The Mother's Recompense by Auchincloss, Louis

The Mother's Recompense

$18.99
Format: Paperback
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Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infant daughter.
Oddly enough, Kate has been summoned back by that same daughter, Anne, now fully grown and intent on marrying Chris Fenno, a war hero, dilettante, and social opportunist. Chris's questionable intentions toward her daughter are, however, the least of Kate's worries since she was once, and still is, deeply in love with him. Kate's moral quandary and the ensuing drama evoke comparison with Oedipus and Hamlet and lead to an ending that startled the mores of the day.

Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN-10: 0684825317
ISBN-13: 9780684825311
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 10/03/1996
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.36w x 0.66d
By Edith Wharton
By Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Innocence. Born in 1862 into one of New York's older and richer families, she was educated in New York and abroad. Her works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, Old New York, The Reef, and Madame de Treymes and Other Stories. As a keen observer and chronicler of society, she is without peer. Edith Wharton died in France in 1937

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