by Louis Auchincloss
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When you see the words "Not a novel in the conventional sense" the more sophisticated reader will approach it as insecurely as if it were meatloaf in a dairy restaurant. The Auchincloss bona fides notwithstanding. Actually these are short stories - some of them - or vignettes - most of them - (the same format as Powers of Attorney) dealing with the partners coming up or going out in the New York firm of Shepard, Putney & Cox and centering around one Becky Ehninger, the firm's fixer; in lesser terms, personnel manager. Thus his attempt to get a senior senior member of the firm, testy and sclerotic, to retire or at the end to utilize all those who have been dropped - "duplicates" - after a major merger. In between you'll meet others - say Marc Currier whose wife independently insists on working in this world where no wives do - Beeky's wife has her cards and lunches and drinks and a lover; or young Carter sent to Paris who inspires a lapsed novelist to write the great novel which will destroy his self-image of being a Flaubert manque; etc., etc. Incidental Auchincloss but there's that nihil obstat readership for whom the sometimes amusing commentary, careful scene-setting and perfect haberdashery is enough. (Kirkus Reviews)
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