A Certain Age: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.34 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062404962 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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The One I've Been Waiting For - Great Story, Even Better Writing I've been in a reader's drought. I picked up book after book and thought maybe I'd just read too many, in this genre especially, and just couldn't thoroughly enjoy one anymore. I've been craving great writing. I'm tired of picking up books and feeling that I've already read the story many times before, or that the book has so much filler and the author is just trying to get that particular book in some series completed. I'm tired of characters not coming to life for me, of them being a simple stereotype, rather than a carefully crafted unique ind. I've really liked all of Williams' books but this one wasn't as I've really liked all of Williams' books but this one wasn't as fast of a read for me. It was good but not as great as her other one to me. I think it was that the main characters were a little more distant for me, I didn't engage as much with them. I found one to be too whimpy, the other a little depressing and the man to be somewhat cold.. Ellen Gross said And all that jazz. The ripping apart of traditional American life, roaring into the post WWI years and prohibition. Fidelity and sobriety tossed aside for free thinking, and psychology. Murder and a search for love uncovers mistresses and kept boy toys. It's a shaky foundation for our modern era. Showing how we got here from there.
She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz Williams spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a communications strategy consultant, and then as an at-home producer of small persons, before her career as a writer took off.
Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother’s cavalier, presenting the family’s diamond rose ring to Ox’s intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue—and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice.Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams’ fiction and alternating between Sophie’s spirited voice and Theresa’s vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard S
From the Back CoverThe bestselling author of a hundred summers brings the roaring twenties brilliantly to life in an enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York societyAs the hedonism of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. And there is no need: she shares a gentle understanding with Sylvo, the well-bred philanderer to whom she’s already married.That is, until Theresa’s impecunious bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with Miss Sophie Fortescue, the naïve young daughter of a wealthy inventor. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, an a