Title: The rose garden
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.
Subjects: Country life, Social life and customs, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Ireland, fiction, United states, social life and customs, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Romans, nouvelles, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs
Places: Ireland, United States
Time periods: 20th century