Word: auchincloss
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...often exhilarating novel about money. There are 104 chapters, at least as many characters, and dialogue that runs on and on like ticker tape. Money is not a particularly easy subject for fiction. Miss Stead is no Balzac or Dickens; on the other hand, she is no Louis Auchincloss either. She is, however, obviously mesmerized by money and her sharpest writing is comment about it. "Certainly I understand the class war," says a rich old countess. "We steal from the pigs: the pigs know they want truffles and we want truffles when we see the pigs with them. Money...
...Seventh Moon, Holt 4-The Winds of War, Wouk (5) 5-The Dark Horse, Knebel (7) 6- Captains and the Kings, Caldwell (4) 7- A Portion for Foxes, McClary (6) 8- My Name Is Asher Lev, Potok (3) 9-The Levanter, Ambler 10-1 Come as a Thief, Auchincloss...
...ICome as a Thief, Auchincloss...
During this present novel, even affectionate readers will have a hard time remembering what it is that often makes Auchincloss worth bothering about. The story, written at the level of what used to be called women's magazine fiction, concerns the downfall and upfall of Tony Lowder, a decent, attractive and rather priggish young lawyer with political ambitions. To help a feckless law partner who is in financial trouble, and because there seems no reason not to, Lowder accepts a bribe from a Mafia-connected moneyman whose activities are under investigation. The novel follows the muscular workings...
There is no logical point at which to begin an analysis of what went wrong with I Come as a Thief. The reader is left with the vivid impression that Auchincloss forgot why he called his characters together in the first place, and was too embarrassed to ask them to disband. ·JohnSkow