The Season of Lillian Dawes (Electronic book text)

From the acclaimed writer whose first novel, "Private Altars,," comes a story of driving lyrical force set in Manhattan in the 1950s.

""There is, in most lives, a defining moment, a point dividing time into before and after....""

When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother Spencer in New York. Rather than a punishment, this becomes an exhilarating invitation to a dazzling world, from smoking cigars at the Plaza Hotel to weekend house parties filled with tennis and cocktails.

It is in this heady atmosphere -- from white-gloved Park Avenue to literary Greenwich Village -- that Gabriel first glimpses the elusive Lillian Dawes. Free-spirited and mysterious, Lillian captures the imaginations of those in "all the best circles," including both brothers. As their lives entwine, so begins the powerful and poignant unraveling of innocence.

Mosby beautifully traces the trajectory of consequence that will change all three lives. "The Season of Lillian Dawes" is a wondrous novel that chronicles a young man's first tour of the adult world.