Showing A Voice From Old New York by Louis Auchincloss

HardCover Pub Date: December 2010 Pages: 224 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 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. His memoir confirms that. despite the spark of his fiction. Auchincloss himself was the most entertaining character he has created. No traitor to his class but occasionally its critic. he returns us to his Society which was. he maintains. less interesting than its members admitted. You may differ as he unfurls his life with dignity. summoning his family (particularly his father who suffered from depression and forgave him for hating sports) and intimates. ooke Astor and her circle are here. along with glimpses of Jacqueline Onassis. Most memorable. though. is his way with those outside the salon: the cranky maid; the maiden aunt. perp...