Memoirs of Hecate County
An upper-middle-class intellectual narrates this classic collection of six stories exploring lust and love in mid-twentieth-century American society.
“The devil has a field day in suburbia. The main scene of the story (when it is not Manhattan Island) is in the countryside somewhere on the commuters’ cocktail circuit near New York. Outwardly it is realistic down to the last croquet set. But it is a...
An upper-middle-class intellectual narrates this classic collection of six stories exploring lust and love in mid-twentieth-century American society.
“The devil has a field day in suburbia. The main scene of the story (when it is not Manhattan Island) is in the countryside somewhere on the commuters’ cocktail circuit near New York. Outwardly it is realistic down to the last croquet set. But it is a...
