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 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject: Reading Group – Monday, March 15th, 10:30 |
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What subject: "A Backward Glance" by Edith Wharton
Where: Samantha Vance’s Home
7 Allee Charles Malpel, #403
31300 Toulouse
Date: 15 March, 10:30
A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James.
In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance "as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels." It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton's fiction.
The discussion commences over coffee and continues through lunch, so contact Samantha at samivance(a)yahoo.com (insert at-sign) or 05 61 50 83 20 for precise directions and to inform her about your contribution towards lunch. "A Backward Glance" may be ordered by email from THE BOOKSHOP, rue Lakanal, Toulouse (bookshop.toulouse@wanadoo.fr) or from www.amazon.co.uk. |
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