Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at the country club, tennis dates and rounds of golf, holiday parties, summers on the Island, and sparkling occasions full of people and drinks and food and laughter. But curious as he is and impatient to grow up, Tommy will soon come to glimpse the darkness that lies beneath so ...
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Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at the country club, tennis dates and rounds of golf, holiday parties, summers on the Island, and sparkling occasions full of people and drinks and food and laughter. But curious as he is and impatient to grow up, Tommy will soon come to glimpse the darkness that lies beneath so much genteel complacency: hidden histories and embarrassing poor relations; the subtle (and not so subtle) slighting of the "help"; the mockery of President Roosevelt; and "the commandment they talked least about in Sunday school," adultery. In Testing the Current William McPherson subtly sets off his wide-eyed protagonist's perspective with mature reflection and wry humor and surrounds him with a cast of vibrant characters, creating a scrupulously observed portrait of a place and time that will shimmer in readers' minds long after the final page is turned.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Clean and unmarked in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; First printing. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Unclipped dust jacket has a nick/tear at front top right. Overall, handsome. 348 pp.
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Good in very good dust jacket. 348 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Condition: Good. DJ Condition: Some chipping. Light stains to front cover and front end pages and several back pages. Reading copy.
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Very Good. 1st edition 1st printing-minor wear to edge of dust jacket-mark and minor staining to page edge-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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First Edition, first printing with full number line in very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Boards are solid, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has some wear, with minor nicks and tears at the edges. Otherwise an attractive book with minimal signs of use an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
