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A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth, At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss—enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh—had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirms that, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself wa, A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth
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  • A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth
  • Written by author Louis Auchincloss
  • Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, December 02, 2010
  • At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss—enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh—had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirms that, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself wa
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CONTENTS

Introduction: Turning Back ix

Part I: How It Was

 1 | Genealogy, et cetera 3
 2 | John and Priscilla 9
 3 | What Some Call “Society” 17
 4 | A Few Words About Women 27

Part II: Education and After

 5 | Teachers, Beloved and Otherwise 39
 6 | My Life in Crime 47
 7 | Bar Harbor 55
 8 | Bad Sports 61
 9 | Religion 73
10 | The Great Depression 79
11 | The Brits 85
12 | Cohorts 91
13 | A Hang-up 97
14 | I Begin to Write 107
15 | Sea Duty 113
16 | Fear 117
17 | A Return to Society 123

18 | The Firm 129
19 | Fleeing the Law 141
20 | A Few More Words About Women 147
21 | Animal Encounters 155

Part III: The Writing Life

22 | Writerly Types 163
23 | Class 169
24 | Burdens 175
25 | A Would-be Writer, Not Forgotten 181

Part IV: Farewells

26 | My Mother 187
27 | And Please Do Not Forget 195

Epilogue: Words 201

 


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