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Gilded Age (2012)

by Claire McMillan(Favorite Author)

3.05 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1451640471 (ISBN13: 9781451640472)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: I really enjoyed this book. It is set in Cleveland, and the characters are part of the upper echelon of society who could have been cast in Peyton Place. It is about bad choices in a small, critical group of so-called friends. It is about the double standard for the behavior and expectations of women and men that still exist in the 21st century. It is about feeling threatened, being spiteful, and behaving rashly and regretting later.The other reviews I've read indicate this book is a rewrite of The House of Mirth, which I will now have to read also.
review 2: "I'm a native Clevelander." The setting for Claire McMillan's novel "Gilded Age" was what attracted me to the book, in addition to the fact that the author lives locally. What a disappointment this b... moreook was! If it had been set in Chicago or Rochester or Cincinnati, I would have noted that it was just a useless, trite story and left it at that. However, McMillan chose MY neck of the woods to be painted as a town of non-stop cocktail parties filled with drugs, casual adulterous sex and back-biting. I appreciated the little spirit parades the author held for Cleveland, but the storyline made the book a chore to finish. less

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