Daemonwolfbooks (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} daemonwolfbooks) wrote,@ 2007-08-05 13:58:00 |
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0/10 (DNF) - The Glimpses Of The Moon by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Ed edition (28 Oct 1996)
ISBN-10: 0684826194
ISBN-13: 978-0684826196
Inspired/Suggested by: Picked up at the BCUK Unconvention 2007.
Synopsis: 'She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.' Susy Branch learned early that to thrive without money in a society driven by wealth one must dissemble, flatter and sometimes even drop one's moral guard in order to share a little of one's host's luxury and leisure. Nick Lansing has also learned and wearied of the same lesson. Despite the foolishness of their romance - for each should be seeking a partner of means - they decide to marry. By combining their skills they should be able to enjoy a year's invitations and happiness before they need face reality. But love makes its own exacting demands and its costs can also be high ...
A predictable enough tale of two people who decide to get married to sponge off their friends as a newly wed couple but who then clash and realise that they can't just remain as they were once the doors are closed. I didn't finish this as it just didn't catch my attention enough to persuade me not to turn to one of the other couple of hundred books calling to me. 0/10. (For a reminder of the scale used please see my profile.)
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