The Mother's Recompense
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- Paperback
350 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2027
Summary
Edith Wharton’s little discussed Jazz Age classic, The Mother’s Recompense (1925), finds Kate Clephane returning to New York society, after abandoning her husband and three-year-old daughter years before.
American Kate Clephane has lived in Europe for twenty years, the ghosts of a failed marriage and abandoned daughter haunting her as she drifts along the French Riviera. It is an aimless, turbulent life, lived in the company of other expats and outcasts, the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781961884939 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1961884933 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton, Joanna Biggs, Jennifer Wilson, Allison Miriam Smith |
| Publisher: | Unnamed Press |
| Imprint: | Smith &Taylor Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 350 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm |
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About The Author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the upper-class New York “aristocracy” to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Joanna Biggs is the author of A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again and a finalist for the 2023 National Award for Arts Writing. She is an editor at The Yale Review.
Jennifer Wilson is a staff writer at The New Yorker covering books and culture. Previously, she was a critic at The New York Times Book Review. She holds a Ph.D. in Russian literature from Princeton.
Allison Miriam Smith is a co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. She is also an Acquiring Editor and Publishing & Publicity Manager for Unnamed Press. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California where she was an assistant curator for the USC Doheny Library George Cassady Lewis Carroll Special Collection. She later went on to earn a Masters in 18th & 19th c. Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, working nights at the library. Before Unnamed Press, she was a bookseller at Skylight Books. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.
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