...The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. First published in 1920, this novel won Wharton the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (the first Pulitzer for a novel awarded to a woman). It was recently named, by New York Magazine critic Sam Anderson "the single greatest New York novel." While I've never been interested in the sub-genre of the "New York novel" (in fact I didn't know the category existed until I decided to read this book) I'm up for something interesting based in the Big Apple. I wonder if Bushnell's Sex and the City is considered a "New York novel," and even more importantly I wonder what Sam Anderson thinks about it.
Centered around the lives of the upper middle class in New York in the 1870's this novel focuses on Newland Archer and May Welland and their impending marriage. We shall see what happens to this young couple in the pages of Wharton's book. The Age of Innocence, after my brief research, certainly has a lot to live up to.
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