The rose garden
Subtitle: short stories
By: Maeve Brennan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Country life -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "At the heart of The Rose Garden is a series of linked stories with the cumulative power of a novel - a study of life in Herbert's Retreat, an enclave of rich, smug, vaguely artistic social-climbers situated some thirty miles above Manhattan. The self-satisfaction of these privileged suburbanites is matched only by their malice and their envy of one another's river view, kitchen fireplace, and live-in Irish help.

Here Brennan is the master of a savage kind of farce, one part John Cheever, one part Moliere, one part Dublin music-hall hilarity."--BOOK JACKET.