NARCISSA and Other Fables.
by Auchincloss, Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket (rubbing and minor edgewear to dj)/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0395331145
- ISBN 13
- 9780395331149
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1983.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (rubbing and minor edgewear to dj). First printing. A collection of thirteen short stories which offer a "penetrating glimpse into the ethical malaise" of our time. The title story, about a wealthy muralist and patroness of the arts who poses in the nude for a fellow artist who then blackmails her, could be updated for the internet age, where images all to frequently come back to haunt people. Other stories focus on manipulation - "a socially prominent family conspires to entrap a girl into a 'front' marriage with their homosexual son and heir" - and corruption - "a federal judge sells his opinions to the highest bidder with a recklessness that seems, almost suicidally, to invite detection." 213 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76197
- Title
- NARCISSA and Other Fables.
- Author
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (rubbing and minor edgewear to dj)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395331145
- ISBN 13
- 9780395331149
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1983.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short story collections;
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