Title: Well written portrait of upper class social change
Review: This novel's premise is: the culture of wealthy, aristocratic WASP families that was once center stage in America is all but gone. This novel is a portrait of one such family of the Philadelphia Main Line that came apart in the social upheavals of the Sixties and Seventies, and whose members had difficulty competing as America subsequently moved toward a more complete meritocracy. The main character is a sympathetic hero who is well developed and easy to understand, even for those of us who didn't grow up with the Social Register and who went to college on scholarship. The writing is excellent, the narrative voice and writing style convey a sense of propriety, a natural fit for the subject matter of this novel.
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