The Ivory Tower

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Two young heirs find themselves entangled in a world of corruption as their tyranic benefactors manipulate them for their own purposes.

Reviews

"Late, piercing, morally incisive look at the unscrupulous rich."The Guardian

"InThe Ivory Tower, James was still experimenting with the impressions of his American tour.There is a vivid sense conveyed of the bright sea and summer air and the great, crazy, overdecorated villas, but the keenest impression is of the various people that the hero meets.The effect is as remarkable as anything that James ever achieved."Louis Auchincloss

"Jamess last noveldenounced, with all the delicacy and subtlety of his style, the world he had seen, at Biltmore, at Lenox, in the great houses of New York and Newport. He had reclaimed his American heritage, but he seems to have felt it wasnt worth reclaiming. You seem all here so hideously rich, says his hero. [The Ivory Toweris] a dense and powerfully conceived work."Leon Edel

Author Bio

Henry James (1843-1916), the younger brother of the psychologist William James and one of the greatest of American writers, was born in New York but lived for most of his life in England. Among the best known of his many stories and novels are The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Wings of the Dove. Alan Hollinghurst was born in Gloucestershire, 1954 and attended Magdalen College, Oxford, From 1982 to 1995 he worked at the Times Literary Supplement. His novels include The Swimming Pool Library and The Spell. He is a contributor to The London Review of Books and lives in London.