Early Autumn

<h3>A Compelling Pulitzer Prize-Winning Saga of a Family's Fall from Power</h3><p>TRULY LOVELY -Gillian Flynn author of<em> Gone Girl</em></p><p>For generations the proud Pentland family name meant wealth class and status. In the years following the first World War however change was in the air with numerous nouveaux-riches pretenders challenging the privileged family's position as an arbiter of values and class. </p><p>Strong-willed Olivia Pentland-wife of Anson the cold and distant heir to the family fortune-endures a tedious life largely devoid of joy or passion. Trapped in a stifling marriage Olivia must examine her conscience and choose between the sudden thrill and lure of new love and the heavy tug of traditional family duty. </p><p>An extravagant debutante party at the Pentland estate for next-generation Sybil and Sabine opens a dramatic window into the fa��ade the family maintains and becomes a catalyst for fracturing the perquisites they've all grown accustomed to. In the weeks that follow relationships are tested decorum and privilege challenged and several carefully guarded family secrets unearthed in a cascading series of events which irrevocably upends their lives.</p><p>Winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Louis Bromfield's witty and satirical epic evokes a keen insight into human nature and a powerful appreciation of the natural world. In unmasking the rigid and puritanical class-based New England mores as the veneer to a lifestyle with little meaning Bromfield sets the stage for a wholly new social contract. A reading of <em>Early Autumn</em> is an indelible experience you won't want to miss.</p><p>This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a hardcover (ISBN 1648371736).</p>