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Penguin
August 2012
On Sale: August 6, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 067002368X
EAN: 9780670023684
Kindle: B0072O032W
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Romance Historical
For fans of The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the
life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that
threatened her closest friendship They say behind every great man is a woman. Behind Edith
Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann—her governess turned
literary secretary, and her mothering, nurturing friend. When at the age of forty-five, Edith falls passionately in
love with a dashing younger journalist, Morton Fullerton,
and is at last opened to the world of the sensual, it
threatens everything certain in her life but especially her
abiding friendship with Anna. As Edith’s marriage crumbles
and Anna’s disapproval threatens to shatter their lifelong
bond, the women must face the fragility at the heart of all
friendships. Told through the points of view of both women, The Age of
Desire takes us on a vivid journey through Wharton’s early
Gilded Age world: Paris with its glamorous literary salons
and dark secret cafés, the Whartons’ elegant house in Lenox,
Massachusetts, and Henry James’s manse in Rye, England. Edith’s real letters and intimate diary entries are woven
throughout the book. The Age of Desire brings to life one of
literature’s most beloved writers, whose own story was as
complex and nuanced as that of any of the heroines she created.
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