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by Molly Keane (Author), Amy Gentry (Introduction by)
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
"I really wish I had written this book...A real work of craftsmanship, where the heroine is also the narrator, yet has no idea what is going on." --Hilary Mantel
a faded aristocracy dedicated to distraction even as their fortunes dwindle. Keane's brilliant sleight of hand is to allow her blinkered heroine to narrate her own development from neglected child, to ungainly debutante, to bitter spinster: Aroon understands nothing, yet she reveals all.
Author Biography
Molly Keane (1904-1996) was a novelist and playwright born in Kildare, Ireland, to a wealthy hunting family. As a teenager, she started writing in secret, composing fiction that satirized the idiosyncrasies of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. She published eleven novels under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell, first publishing under her own name in 1981, at the age of seventy-seven, with Good Behaviour.
Amy Gentry is the author of Good as Gone, a New York Times Notable Book, and Last Woman Standing. She is also a nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Salon, and The Paris Review. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 5 IN
Publication Date: May 18, 2021
