Twilight Sleep
By (Author) Edith Wharton
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
15th May 1996
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.52
Paperback
384
Width 132mm, Height 197mm, Spine 26mm
280g
A portrait of 1920s New York society. 7.30 Mental uplift. 7.45 Breakfast. 8 Psychoanalysis. 8.15 See cook . And so begins another day in the elegant, langorous world of the Manford family around whom this ironic and amusing study of a family drama revolves.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), friend and contemporary of Henry James, was born in New York but spent her later life in France. She won two Pulitzer prizes and was probably the most accomplished American novelist of her generation.