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Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton (2024, Trade Paperback)

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About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherUnnamed Press

ISBN-101961884224

ISBN-139781961884229

eBay Product ID (ePID)15065695591

Product Key Features

Book TitleTwilight Sleep

Number of Pages295 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicClassics, Contemporary Women, General

GenreFiction

AuthorEdith Wharton

Book SeriesSmith and Taylor Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal813.5/2

SynopsisMrs. Pauline Manford is a busy woman, as any upstanding New York society lady should be. To manage a modern household is to hold the family together, staying on trend with all things helpful, but her daughter has horrible taste in married men, her ex-husband is unwell, and her son is struggling to forge a career for himself while his postpartum wife refuses to settle down from lavish partying. Pauline can't decide if she should bob her hair, redecorate, or get a face lift, and she surely doesn't have time to notice her current husband's wandering eye as anything other than harmless flirtations. When a rakish Italian actor bound for Hollywood and a scandal with the local wellness guru threaten to tear her perfectly constructed life apart, Pauline moves on to new spiritually medicinal treatments, and the Manfords must navigate the fraught tensions that bind them together. Hopefully a vacation from NYC's ruthless grind to their quiet country house will deter any further worries. Twilight Sleep (1927), named for the early anesthetic that predates epidural and induces memory loss, is Edith Wharton's oft-forgotten novel of modern motherhood and the pressures that lead women to reconstruct or completely escape their lives. Sharp and humorous, it feels as relevant today as it did in the 1920s.