Showing East Side Story: A Novel by Louis Auchincloss

HardCover Pub Date: December 2004 Pages: 240 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and a perfect the the understated Knowledge of those who Show details for 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 st...