The Beautiful and Damned

　　Here is a portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, as depicted in the lives of the very wealthy Anthony Patch and his willful wife Gloria.

　　Hortense Calisher is the author of twenty-two books, including the National Book Award nominees False Entry, Herself, and The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher. She lives in Manhattan and upstate New York.