A rage to live
By: John O'Hara ; introduction by Louis Begley.
Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 713
Subjects: Upper class families -- Fiction.; Upper class women -- Fiction.; Married women -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; Scandals -- Fiction.; Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A Rage to Live is a large-scale social chronicle of America set against the backdrop of Fort Penn, Pennsylvania, a city with a dynamic history, both public and personal. The Caldwells are its leading family, and Grace Caldwell Tate is the dramatic symbol of their dominance. Her avidity for life carries her through an impetuous childhood, marriage, violent extramarital affairs, scandal, disaster, and her own kind of triumphs. Idealists and libertines, public-spirited and self-seeking citizens, officials and tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce possessiveness and tenderness form the pageant of memorable characters.