War & Military Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction, Love & Relationships - Fiction
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Overview
Dexter Fairchild, lawyer and member of the New York elite, and his wife Rosalie, emerge as the central characters in a family saga spanning three generations. Their tumultuous marriage and moral struggles parallel the social and political upheaval of the Civil War era.Dexter Fairchild, lawyer and member of the New York elite, and his wife Rosalie, emerge as the central characters in a family saga spanning three generations. Their tumultuous marriage and moral struggles parallel the social and political upheaval of the Civil War era.
Editorials
Anne Tyler
. . .elegant prose is rare enough these days to make Watchfires pleasant reading. . . .Long recognized as our most observant and perhaps our only novelist of manners, Louis Auchincloss is at his best here wryly chronicling society's attempts to gloss over vulgar reality. . . .Watchfires lacks the depth that makes a book stay on in the reader's mind, but it's nonetheless accomplished and graceful. -- The New York TimesBook Details
Published
March 1, 1982
Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
Pages
368
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780395315460