The Season of Lillian Dawes

by Katherine Mosby

2020-08-25 16:39:07

From the acclaimed writer of Private Altars, comes a story of driving lyrical force set in Manhattan in the 1950s. When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother Spencer in New York. Rather than a punis... Read more
From the acclaimed writer of Private Altars, comes a story of driving lyrical force set in Manhattan in the 1950s. When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother Spencer in New York. Rather than a punishment, this becomes an exhilarating invitation to a dazzling world, from smoking cigars at the Plaza Hotel to weekend house parties filled with tennis and cocktails. It is in this heady atmosphere — from white-gloved Park Avenue to literary Greenwich Village — that Gabriel first glimpses the elusive Lillian Dawes. Free-spirited and mysterious, Lillian captures the imaginations of those in all the best circles, including both brothers. As their lives entwine, so begins the powerful and poignant unraveling of innocence. Less

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File size8.03x5.33x0.73inches
Print pages288
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date April 1, 2003
ISBN9780060936952

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