Title : New Yorkers - Edith Wharton - book

Summary :

Pauline Manford is a seemingly exemplary wife, mother, and homemaker, determined to see only success and harmony around her. But in the New York of the Roaring Twenties, the opulent Manford family is caught up in the whirlwind of pleasure and money. The conflict between a tenacious puritanism and cynical behavior causes dramas from which Pauline turns away by pursuing frenetic activity. Her days are filled with domestic rituals, marital tactics, spiritualist meditations, social gatherings, and charitable organizations in a total leveling of values. She stuns herself with positive principles, as categorical as they are artificial, in order to distract herself from a reality she would find wrong to face. Yet those close to her are painfully aware of the blindness, lies, and betrayals surrounding her. The intimate wounds of her daughter Nona are those of an entire generation victimized by the negligence of their elders. A strikingly timely satire on the ravages of complacency, Women of New York is Edith Wharton's fiercest, funniest, and most modern novel.

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