Overview

When two daughters are left to their own devices, they soon wreak havoc on their father's wealthy Boston household. While Susan carries on an affair with her psychiatrist and is blackmailed by the butler, Claire turns the third floor into a rehabilitation center for prostitutes. And that's just the start of the dizzying round of events that make up this wickedly funny satire on contemporary American life.

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""A considerable first novel--literate and entertaining, with a nice satiric barb.""--The Nation

A tediously exploratory, experimental first novel which concerns itself with some pretty confused people and their rather confusing preoccupations. Boston, in the year 1940, sets the scene for this story of the Boynes of rather stable financial and social status until Mr. Boyne, suddenly losing his mind, is taken away to a private sanatorium accompanied by his wife. The household, left in the hands of Claire, 21, and Susan, 19, rapidly deteriorates. Claire, wavering at the threshold of a religious (Catholic) life, brings in a group of nuns and the fallen women they are to salvage. And Susan, increasingly indiscreet in her affair with an older psychoanalyst, who never draws too fine a line between his patients and his women, becomes the victim of blackmail by the house man- eventually is killed.... A generally unattractive account which might- in its cerebral cleverness- qualify for a few. (Kirkus Reviews)

<p> A considerable first novel--literate and entertaining, with a nice satiric barb. --The Nation

<p>&quot;A considerable first novel--literate and entertaining, with a nice satiric barb.&quot;--The Nation

A considerable first novel--literate and entertaining, with a nice satiric barb. --The Nation A considerable first novel--literate and entertaining, with a nice satiric barb. --The Nation A considerable first novel--literate and entertaining, with a nice satiric barb. --The Nation

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Howard Nemerov wrote more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. The dozens of awards he received include the National Book Award (1978), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1978), the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1981), and the National Medal for the Arts in Poetry (1987). He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990 and was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

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