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288 pages, Paperback
First published November 14, 2023
"What we're seeing here, in 'House of Mirth,' is anti-Semitism and misogyny, but it's also more or less the end of the marriage story."
"Wharton doesn't know it, but Joyce is on the other side of the Atlantic, already working on 'Ulysses.' Which will blow her right out of the water."
"Here come the writers who won't only rethink narrative without the marriage plot at its center, they'll convey women's freedom within a marriage. Consider 'Mrs. Dalloway.'"
"The only problem with Michael Cunningham's prose is that it ruins you for mere mortals' work. He is the most elegant writer in America."