"Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and a
perfect, understated knowledge of those who inhabit it," said the
New York Times of The Scarlet Letters. The same can be said of
Auchincloss's new novel, a tour de force that charts the rise of
one uncommon family in America's grand city. How did the families
who live on Manhattan's Upper East Side get to where they are
today? As much a penetrating social history as it is engaging
fiction, East Side Story tells of the Carnochans, a family whose
Scottish forebears establish themselves in New York's textile
business during the Civil War. From there they quickly move on to
seize prominent positions in the country's top schools and
Manhattan's elite firms. As the novel unfolds, family members
across the generations recount their stories, illuminating lives
steeped in both good fortune and moral jeopardy. From women who
outsmart their foolish husbands, to ambitious lawyers who protect
the Carnochan name, to the family's artists and writers, all weigh
the question that infuses so much of Auchincloss's fiction: what
makes for a meaningful life in a family that has so much? In its
starred review, Kirkus Reviews hails Auchincloss for being "once
again the master of his craft." East Side Story is both a loving
and wicked look at New York's own as only this sublime master of
manners can provide.
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