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A glamorous New York couple drinks and drifts their way through the Jazz Age while waiting for a grandfather's inheritance.
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Tender Is the Night
An American couple on the French Riviera watches their marriage disintegrate under the weight of alcoholism, infidelity, and the impossibility of recovering the past.
The Great Gatsby
A mysterious millionaire throws lavish parties on Long Island, all to win back a woman who married someone else.
The House of Mirth
A beautiful but poor woman in Gilded Age New York navigates the marriage market with diminishing returns, and society's glittering surface conceals a machinery of destruction.
A Handful of Dust
A contented English squire devoted to his Gothic country house loses his wife to an idle young social climber, and his life comes apart all the way to the Amazon.
The Age of Innocence
A man in 1870s New York is torn between a conventional fiancée and a scandalous countess, and the society that constrains his choice also defines who he is.
The Stories of John Cheever
Sixty-one stories of the American suburbs and cities after the war, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer.
Trust
Four texts, a novel, a memoir, a ghostwriter's recollection and a diary, tell the story of a New York financier and his wife in the 1920s, and each version contradicts the last.
Jazz
In 1926 Harlem, Joe Trace, a married door-to-door salesman, shoots his teenage lover Dorcas, and his wife Violet disrupts the funeral, in a story told by a voice that might be the city itself.
Dancer from the Dance
Malone, a handsome young lawyer who walks away from his career, and Sutherland, a witty queen, drift through the discos of Manhattan and the summer houses of Fire Island in the years after Stonewall, as told by a friend who knew them.
Pineapple Street
The Stocktons are old Brooklyn Heights money, and three women live with it: Darley, the eldest daughter, who gave up her inheritance to marry; Georgiana, the youngest, who falls for the wrong man; and Sasha, who married in and is treated as a gold-digger.
The Iceman Cometh
A play: in Harry Hope's dive saloon in 1912, a roomful of drunks living on pipe dreams wait for Hickey, the salesman whose yearly binge they love, and this time he arrives sober.
The Awakening
A married woman in turn-of-the-century Louisiana begins to awaken to her own desires, and the freedom she discovers is incompatible with the world she lives in.