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Hudson River Bracketed

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First published: 1929
Pages: 410

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Edith Wharton turned late in her career to the making of an artist, following Vance Weston, a raw and ambitious young man from the Midwest who arrives in the older, settled world of the East with dreams of becoming a writer. An aging cousin's house called The Willows, with its shelves of neglected books, opens a door onto a cultural past he never knew he lacked, while his feeling for the clever Halo Spear pulls against his early marriage to the gentle Laura Lou. Published in 1929, the novel traces how talent is formed by hunger, mentorship, and hard disappointment. Wharton's eye for social nuance and thwarted longing is as sharp here as in her famous New York books.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones into the New York society she spent a career anatomising, and her first book was about interior decoration rather than fiction: The Decoration of Houses, written in 1897 with the architect Ogden Codman Jr.