A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth - Rilegato

"Incisive, perceptive, openminded, open-hearted, and civilized, just like the rest of [Auchincloss's] work." —Booklist

"The prolific author’s last book is a farewell to a way of life that was gone before he was. . . . [Auchincloss] was the ideal chronicler of Gotham’s smart set and an apt student of the upper echelons of a putative classless society. . . . Throughout the memoir, the author’s prose is lapidary, graceful and eminently readable. In a world of postmodern letters, Auchincloss draws a curtain on a premodern, Whartonesque way of life. An anthropological guide to the phantom politesse of Old New York, rendered as neatly as ever." —Kirkus Reviews

"Graceful and entertaining . . . Excellent." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Too often pigeonholed and/or dismissed as a mere chronicler of the manners of the Northeastern upper class, [Auchincloss] was in fact a writer of rare skill and range, and his best books should find readers for a long time. . . . A Voice from Old New York  brings his career to a fit conclusion, a fine little book that may help readers understand that his literary legacy is far more complex and durable than most of his critics acknowledge." --Washington Post

"Louis Auchincloss’s memoir largely manages to be entertaining and occasionally even moving." --Boston Globe

"Often captivating . . . It is a pleasure... to have one more chance to read the graceful, patrician Auchincloss prose and to spend a few more moments in his Whartonesque world." -- Wall Street Journal

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