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Twilight Sleep - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Edith Wharton, Brandon Taylor (Introduction by), Allison Miriam Smith (Introduction by)Series:Smith & Taylor Classics #1Publish date:2024-12-10Pages:295
Language:EnglishPublisher:Smith & Taylor ClassicsISBN-13:9781961884229ISBN-10:1961884224UPC:9781961884229Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, WomenSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCGXKM69ZM

Mrs. Pauline Manford is a busy woman, as any upstanding New York society lady should be.

To manage a modern household is to hold the family together, staying on trend with all things helpful, but her daughter has horrible taste in married men, her ex-husband is unwell, and her son is struggling to forge a career for himself while his postpartum wife refuses to settle down from lavish partying. Pauline can't decide if she should bob her hair, redecorate, or get a face lift, and she surely doesn't have time to notice her current husband's wandering eye as anything other than harmless flirtations.

When a rakish Italian actor bound for Hollywood and a scandal with the local wellness guru threaten to tear her perfectly constructed life apart, Pauline moves on to new spiritually medicinal treatments, and the Manfords must navigate the fraught tensions that bind them together. Hopefully a vacation from NYC's ruthless grind to their quiet country house will deter any further worries. Twilight Sleep (1927), named for the early anesthetic that predates epidural and induces memory loss, is Edith Wharton's oft-forgotten novel of modern motherhood and the pressures that lead women to reconstruct or completely escape their lives. Sharp and humorous, it feels as relevant today as it did in the 1920s.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Smith & Taylor ClassicsISBN-13:9781961884229ISBN-10:1961884224UPC:9781961884229Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, WomenSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCGXKM69ZM
Publisher: Smith & Taylor Classics

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