Glimpses of the Moon

Edith Wharton - the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize - turns her wit to a glittering romantic comedy. Two charming, penniless young people marry on the frank understanding that either may walk away the instant a richer match appears, and set off to spend a year borrowing other people's villas and living on other people's hospitality. The joke, and the ache, is that the arrangement works exact...