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...Douglas Auchincloss, Louis Banks, Bruce Barton, Jr., Gilbert Cant, Edwin Copp3, Alexander Eliot, Frank Gibney, Max Gissen, Frederick Gruin, Roger S. Hewlett, James C. Keogh, Louis Kronenberger, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Robert Manning, William Miller. Paul O'Neill, Carl Solberg, Walter Stockly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

SYBIL (284 pp.)-Louis Auchincloss-Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Cuts Don't Bleed | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Gossip in Good Taste. The ablest U.S. disciple of Henry James and Edith Wharton in many a year is a 34-year-old Manhattan lawyer named Louis Auchincloss. His special world is inhabited by New York's oldest and richest families. He writes as an insider, and his tools are accuracy and compassion. But he takes his rich so much for granted that he never makes them a fraction as interesting as a wide-eyed outsider could, e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald or John O'Hara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Cuts Don't Bleed | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...novel, Sybil, Author Auchincloss is still a sound guide to the skeletons in the closets of the chronically rich. As the story of a young woman fed up with a career of idleness, Sybil is both intelligent and persuasive. What makes his story lose effect is a detached air that sometimes turns Sybil and her circle into people talked about rather than seen. For all its urbanity, Sybil winds up as not much more than fashionable gossip, well and truly gossiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Cuts Don't Bleed | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Novelists Stafford, Newby and Auchincloss all write about life. Each is serious, sincere, talented. But each lacks robustness, a sense of the comic and a feeling for the grainy give & take of human experience. All three tell a story well, but all tell thin ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Cuts Don't Bleed | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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