by Louis Auchincloss · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478880881
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Señora de circunstancias is a novel by American author Louis Auchincloss, originally published in 1982. The story follows the life of Clarissa, a woman from New York's high society, through her marriages and relationships, exploring themes of ambition, power, and the complexities of human relationships in a privileged social context. The novel offers a critical look at the New York elite and their values.
Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton, both of whom he much admired. Auchincloss told Ron Martinetti of American Legends website: "I have first editions of Edith Wharton around me as I write. I gave a hundred of her letters that I collected over the years to Yale. Her prose is as lucid and polished as any in American fiction. I admire James enormously. There is not a word of his I haven’t read. [James] is the great American writer of all time." He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked.
