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Aug 28, 2020AndreaG_KCMO rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book is lush with bohemian rich kid atmosphere and frosty New England setting. I resented Richard’s university comrades but understood his attraction to their aesthetic lifestyle and his concealment of a past he views as dreary and inadequate. With the unfolding of high-impact plot intrigue is also an unraveling of each character’s manicured persona. His status as a kind of outcast (from his family and, at intervals, from his Hampden friends) and the sudden escalation of events makes him a barely credible sympathetic protagonist. Whether he deserves that sympathy by the end of the novel is a questionable and complicated game of ethics.