A World of Profit
1968
First Published
3.70
Average Rating
272
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Shallcross Manor faces Flushing Bay in the Borough of Queens in 1960. At age 32, Sophie came back to live in the family mansion. She had been in a sanitorium due to depression for three years and is trying to restart her life. The Shallcross family, for three hundred years members of New York Society, and of Jay Livingston, a product of the world of profit of the 1960's. The Shallcrosses live in uncertain affluence in their fading ancestral home on Long Island. To them it embodies the heritage to which they cling; to Jay the ground on which it stands represents the bedrock of a potential real estate fortune.
Avg Rating
3.70
Number of Ratings
37
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
51%
3 STARS
22%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Louis Auchincloss
Author · 41 books
Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American novelist, historian, and essayist. Among Auchincloss' best-known books are the multi-generational sagas The House of Five Talents, Portrait in Brownstone, and East Side Story. Other well-known novels include The Rector of Justin, the tale of a renowned headmaster of a school like Groton trying to deal with changing times, and The Embezzler, a look at white-collar crime. Auchincloss is known for his closely observed portraits of old New York and New England society.
