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Author Fields, Jennie.

Title The age of desire : a novel / Jennie Fields.

Publication Info. New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION FIELDS    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION FIELDS, JENNIE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIELDS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-FIELDS    Check Shelf
Description x, 352 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary When at the age of forty-five, Edith falls passionately in love with a dashing younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and is at last opened to the world of the sensual, it threatens everything certain in her life but especially her abiding friendship with Anna. As Edith's marriage crumbles and Anna's disapproval threatens to shatter their lifelong bond, the women must face the fragility at the heart of all friendships. Told through the points of view of both women, The Age of Desire takes us on a vivid journey through Wharton's early Gilded Age world: Paris with its glamorous literary salons and dark secret cafés, the Whartons' elegant house in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Henry James's manse in Rye, England. Edith's real letters and intimate diary entries are woven throughout the book. The Age of Desire brings to life one of literature's most beloved writers, whose own story was as complex and nuanced as that of any of the heroines she created.
Subject Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Fiction.
Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, 1849-1916 -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Fiction.
Private secretaries -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Upper class -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
ISBN 9780670023684 alkaline paper
067002368X alkaline paper
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