PORTRAIT in BROWNSTONE

This book is absolutely pristine, with no marks or damage of any kind.

Its only deficit is damage to the dust jacket over the spine--a 1cm hole plus shelf-rubbing at top and bottom.

Brown/taupe boards with bright gold lettering on the spine.

Portrait in Brownstone is a novel that explores the emergent female consciousness through the eyes of Ida Trask Hartley, who,around the age of sixty, begins at last to perceive the full extent of her experience and talents. Bookish and somewhat retiring, Ida has spent most of her life in the shadow of her hard-driving husband, Derrick, a minister's son from New England, and her glamorous cousin Geraldine Denison, Derrick's sometime mistress. It is Geraldine's suicide, following a long slide into alcoholism and depression, which begins the process of Ida's awakening and liberation.

Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, historian and essayist who also parlayed his knowledge of polite society and old money into a career as a novelist. (Some of his books were published by his cousin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.) He wrote 31 novels, 17 short story collections and 18 books of non-fiction.

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