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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

New York Times Literary Treat of the Week...


(On January 28, this Blog posted an obituary notice about Louis Auchincloss, who passed away two days before at age 92. The following is about his final work.)

Auchincloss, Louis. A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Along with being born into high society (like Edith Wharton before him) Louis Auchincloss also had the luxury of being able to do what he wanted in life regardless of peer opinion. An illuminiating French literature course at Yale University inspired his first novel. When it was rejected by Scribner's, Auchincloss turned to law specializing in trusts and estates. This memoir however shows how permanent was the writing bug's bite in that little is said about law school or the practice of it except that his early firm experience was shared with the famous Dulles brothers (Allen was an early director of the Central Intelligence Agency; John Foster served as Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower). Auchincloss shares remembrances of family including distant cousin Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during her time as a book editor; and friends such as Brooke Astor who said she wore jewelry to charity project events because it was expected of her. Everyone mentioned who helped influence the five dozen books Auchincloss would produce in his lifetime are treated with kindness. This was due to Auchincloss being born at a time when people (in his words) "were not raised to show our problems or disappointments in public."


Reviewed by Librarian, Bob.

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