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    Glimpses of the Moon

    By Edith Wharton

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    Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition. However, as they honeymoon in friends' lavish houses, from a villa on Lake Como to a Venetian palace, jealous passions and troubled consciences cause the idyll to crumble. Edith Wharton has perceptively described the choices faced by Nick and Susy; the same dilemma still facing those seduced by the pleasures of society.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPushkin Press
    Release dateFeb 28, 2013
    ISBN9781908968821
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    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

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      Nick and Susy, two New Yorkers with no money, marry each other without any really love between them in order to further their aims. They live as 'hangers on' with their rich friends doing odd jobs and staying in luxurious houses on the continent they can't afford. After an argument they resolve to split up and marry other people, but can they live happily purely in the pursuit of wealth and fancy lifestyles? Having associated Wharton with her novel set in the 1870s, I was surprised at this 1920s novel but the themes of being imprisoned by societal norms are still present. I thought Nick and Susy were both well observed characters and enjoyed how they grew as people. Also some fabulous descriptions of the luxurious lifestyle they aspire to, particularly Susy's desire for a floor length chinchilla cape that's better than anyone else's ?. Could see this being updated, especially if you gave Coral Hicks, Nick's potential fiance, a bigger role.