Reimagines the midlife world of Edith Wharton and the impact of her affair with a young journalist on her longtime friendship with disapproving literary secretary Anna Bahlmann, in a tale told against the backdrop of Gilded Age Paris.
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Edition:
Large print edition
ISBN:
9781444815504
Characteristics:
515 pages ;,24 cm.
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Add a CommentLoved the book but still having trouble to believe women with personalities like Anna used to exist in a world where it's all about me, myself and I.
Loved this sumptuous book based on Edith Wharton's actual letters.
Well-written, structurally sound, but curiously uninvolving to me.
This historical fiction follows the lives of Edith Wharton and her governess-now-secretary Anna Bahlmann and the people in their lives in the years 1907 through 1910, just following the publication of The House of Mirth and while living in Paris and the Wharton?s summer home The Mount.
It?s a book with love and loyalty as its themes and which uses actual correspondence between Wharton and Bahlmann as part of the text. Interesting, but not a favorite. The author just seems to be trying too hard for something magical.