{"publishers": ["Simon & Schuster"], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["218668"], "goodreads": ["410296"]}, "subject_place": ["New York (N.Y.)"], "covers": [8369807], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223114089056", "urn:sfpl:31223114089064"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3545.H16 T83 1997", "PS3545.H16T83 1997"], "key": "/books/OL690395M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL20188A"}], "ocaid": "isbn_9780684839646", "publish_places": ["New York"], "subjects": ["Upper class -- Fiction", "New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction"], "lccn": ["97037488"], "uri_descriptions": ["Contributor biographical information", "Publisher description"], "edition_name": "1st Scribner pbk. fiction ed.", "pagination": "318 p. ;", "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part26.dat:143511527:934", "ia:isbn_9780684839646", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run05.mrc:253786299:2307", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part26.utf8:66193374:1025", "bwb:9780684839646", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-005.mrc:122321202:1702"], "title": "Twilight sleep", "url": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051/97037488.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/97037488.html"], "number_of_pages": 318, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.52"], "isbn_10": ["0684839644"], "publish_date": "1997", "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Edith Wharton.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL98553W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "uris": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051/97037488.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/97037488.html"], "oclc_numbers": ["37545574"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing - these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep. The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and emptiness of life through whatever form of \"twilight sleep\" they can devise or procure.\n\nAnd though the characters and their actions may seem more in keeping with today's society, this is still a classic Wharton tale of the upper crust and its undoing - wittily, masterfully told."}, "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-13T01:03:23.006780"}}