Twilight Sleep Paperback - 1997
by Edith Wharton
Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age--originally published in 1927. Taking her title from the sleep induced through medication to ease the pain during childbirth, Edith Wharton sketches a portrait of a society eager to escape the pain of everyday life through drugs and alcohol, secret sexual alliances, immersion in work, and the pursuit and capricious squandering of money.
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Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing - these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep. The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and emptiness of life through whatever form of "twilight sleep" they can devise or procure. And though the characters and their actions may seem more in keeping with today's society, this is still a classic Wharton tale of the upper crust and its undoing - wittily, masterfully told.
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- Title Twilight Sleep
- Author Edith Wharton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 1997-12-09
- ISBN 9780684839646 / 0684839644
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.92 x 5.28 x 0.7 in (20.12 x 13.41 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97037488
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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