Rosedale In Love (The House of Mirth Revisited)

by Lev Raphael

Overview

Money Meets Prejudice in The Gilded Age

In the glittering world of money-mad 1905 New York City, Jewish financier Simon Rosedale plans to force his way into high society through marriage and has his eye on Lily Bart. One of the most beautiful women in the city, Lily is a down-at-heels aristocrat plagued by gossip and might be vulnerable to his proposal. With his money and her style and connections, he can rise to the top--but will she lower herself to marry a Jew? Could such a marriage heal Rosedale's secret shame, and will Florence Goodhart, the cousin who adores Rosedale, help or hinder his plans?

Written in a period voice, Rosedale in Love audaciously revisions Edith Wharton's beloved classic The House of Mirth, offering readers a timeless American story of greed, envy, scandal, love and revenge. This edition offers readers a new Foreword exploring the unique genesis of the novel.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012391698
Publisher:	Lev Raphael
Publication date:	04/18/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	724 KB

About the Author

Lev Raphael is a prize-winning author, reviewer, and blogger who has published twenty-six books in a wide range of genres and been translated into a dozen languages. A former student of famed Wharton biographer Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Raphael has been a Wharton fan for decades. He was recently a keynote speaker at the international Wharton conference in Florence where he read from Rosedale in Love. Among his other books is a ground-breaking biographical study of Wharton as well as a comic mystery delving into the politics around her reputation, The Edith Wharton Murders.

Editorial Reviews

"Lev Raphael has done his homework in this extremely well-written novel, and includes history and current events of the time period that completely immerse the reader in a world of spectacle, ceremony, gossip and intrigue that makes the era, and the characters, come alive."

Indiereader.com - Cynthia Darling

"Lev Raphael's novel of the Gilded Age pays homage to Edith Wharton and deftly nods to Henry James as it depicts the interplay of identity, wealth, and social standing in a society that demands reputation but objects to poverty even more than scandal."
--Elise Blackwell, author of An Unfinished Score

http://www.levraphael.com - Elise Blackwell

"Lev Raphael brilliantly captures an American era of fabulous wealth and fatuous prejudice while giving Simon Rosedale the nuance and complexity that the otherwise-masterful Edith Wharton, blinded by the mindless Anti-Semitism of her day, failed to do. In turning Wharton's careless caricature into a memorable multi-dimensional being, Raphael makes our sympathies shift in wonderfully startling ways. Beautifully written and absolutely absorbing."
--Lillian Faderman, author of Odd

http://www.levraphael.com - Lilian Faderman

"When The House of Mirth is revisited from Simon Rosedale's perspective, the Gilded Age gives up still more of its secrets. Lev Raphael explores many of the areas in which the period was over the top--from high fashion to high finance, from gastronomy to interior decoration--and the mix provides a great summer read."
--Joan DeJean, author of The Essence of Style

http://www.levraphael.com - Joan DeJean

"Richly textured and darkly witty, Rosedale in Love explores the inner life of outsiders, to whom the hidden give-and-take of high society is a language to be struggled with, for whom external wealth and inner impoverishment go hand in hand. Lev Raphael catches the subtlety of Wharton's original, and enriches her exploration of a story in which love pulls against ambition, and shame is a daily taste in the mouth."

http://www.levraphael.com - Laurie R. King