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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston
The Los Angeles Times has lauded Louis Auchincloss as "a novelist committed to examining the complicated layers of character, psychology, and society." In The Friend of Women, that dedication shines on every page in the singular, epigrammatic style...
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The Los Angeles Times has lauded Louis Auchincloss as "a novelist committed to examining the complicated layers of character, psychology, and society." In The Friend of Women, that dedication shines on every page in the singular, epigrammatic style of an American master. The mysteries of character are at the heart of these six previously unpublished pieces. In the title story, a teacher at a private girls' school ruminates on a long career, wondering if he was right to encourage his students to find a life less constrained than the conventional one prescribed to them or if he cruelly raised unrealistic expectations. In "The Country Cousin" -- a delightful one-act play -- a wealthy woman's dependent niece unwittingly serves as the vehicle that reveals her rich relatives' self-involvement. Ranging from a boyhood friendship tested by the fabrications of the McCarthy era to an Episcopal priest tormented by an autocratic headmaster, Auchincloss's fiction illuminates the complications that ensue when our perceptions of other people's character -- as well as our own -- are upended Front Matter -- BOOKS BY LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. L'AMI DES FEMMES -- 2. THE DEVIL AND RUFUS LOCKWOOD -- 3. THE CALL OF THE WILD -- 4. THE CONVERSION OF FRED COATES -- 5. THE OMELETTE AND THE EGG -- 6.. THE COUNTRY COUSIN: A COMEDY IN ONE ACT
