Miss West as a novelist has left a wide gap of years since the
success of The Judge. Now she comes forward with a novel in a
completely new vein - one that suggests the brittle fascination of
Huxley, the tongue in cheek of Anne Green, the oblique
psychological approach of Virginia Woolf - blended with her own
brilliant and mordant wit. A commentary on post-war France in a
story of an American widow, determined to keep her emotions wrapped
in cotton wool - and failing spectacularly, and deliberately, on
two occasions, with results other than she bargained for. Paris -
Le Touquet - the outer fringe of the smart crowd - all under the
microscope. The result - an intellectual treat, for this is a
mental not an emotional book, and perhaps the more refreshing for
that. (Kirkus Reviews)
Isabelle is beautiful, immensely rich and a widow at the age of
twenty-six. In 1928 she leaves America for Cannes and Paris in
search of high society - and love. For though outwardly she has
everything women dream of, inside she craves the peace of a lasting
marriage. To find the kind of love she needs Isabelle must choose
between three men: her violent, fascinating lover, the aristocrat
Andre de Verviers; a reserved plantation owner from the Deep South,
Laurence Vernon; and the eccentric millionaire Marc Sellafranque...
First published in 1936, this is Rebecca West's most popular work
of fiction: at once a masterful portrayal of the brilliance and
decadence of high society in the 1920s, and a poignant and
compassionate portrait of one woman's life and loves.
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