Word: auchinclosses
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...head atop a glob of what looks like ground beef and pasta that is rolled onto the stage in a wheelbarrow; Lee Radziwell (Jackie's sister) as a child is shown as a three-foot-tall (gnomish) creature wearing a straw hat and a cardboard baby doll dress; Hugh Auchincloss is completely inanimate as a wrinkly amorphous head with a bodyless suit dangled below...
...character who is most alive--and drawn most acidly--is Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who has the same stepfather as Vidal, Hugh Auchincloss. Vidal introduces the young Jackie in a scene in which she is showing his stepsister how to douche after sex. He depicts Jackie as a tough and consummately selfish woman who loves two things, money and publicity--the former more than the latter. On a night out with Vidal in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the 1960s, she appears sly and humorous, a girl who wants to kick up her heels. At one point she begs Vidal to tell...
Books: The collected stories of Louis Auchincloss...
...author seems to have used these stories as sketches for longer fiction, and no single effort stands out as a masterpiece. There is a rough, unshaped quality to some of them not seen in his well-made novels, as if Auchincloss had simply stopped writing when an idea or character ran dry. But the collection as a whole is powerful and chilling. It is as harsh as anything in current literature, an expression of disgust and revulsion maintained over five decades. The author has written some 50 books, is a lawyer from a wealthy old New York family...
True, and all the more reason that the caustic and readable Louis Auchincloss should be cherished as the last author who could write, not in parody, "Gridley and I did not become personal friends until my election to the Greenvale Country Club in 1934. I should admit here that election to this club was the social triumph of my life. I never could see why Pussy and the children found it stuffy...