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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting.
A devastating satire of
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Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Featuring a new introduction, this contemporary satire of turn-of-the-century Boston, which was awarded the Pulitizer Prize for Fiction in 1938, traces the life of George Apley, a wealthy businessman who sacrifices his individuality to social custom and tradition.
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