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Like a sealed bottle of pure mid-Sixties. . . . feels fresher after a third of a century than most novels written yesterday. -- Jonathan Franzen
The best first novel I've read in quite a long time. -- Bernard Bergonzi, New York Review of Books
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Paula Fox's stunning first novel--available for the first time since its initial publication in 1967. Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral purpose, George discovers a local adolescent named Ernest breaking into his house. Rather than hand the boy over to the police, as his nagging wife insists, George instead decides to tutor him. His life consequently implodes. Filled with vividly acid portrayals of American life in the 1960s, prescient explorations of suburban anomie, and a riotously disturbing cast of supporting characters, Poor George is a classic American novel--further reminder of Paula Fox's astonishing literary gifts. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn.
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Like a sealed bottle of pure mid-Sixties. . . . feels fresher after a third of a century than most novels written yesterday. -- Jonathan Franzen
The best first novel I've read in quite a long time. -- Bernard Bergonzi, New York Review of Books
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Paula Fox's stunning first novel--available for the first time since its initial publication in 1967. Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral purpose, George discovers a local adolescent named Ernest breaking into his house. Rather than hand the boy over to the police, as his nagging wife insists, George instead decides to tutor him. His life consequently implodes. Filled with vividly acid portrayals of American life in the 1960s, prescient explorations of suburban anomie, and a riotously disturbing cast of supporting characters, Poor George is a classic American novel--further reminder of Paula Fox's astonishing literary gifts. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn.
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WHO LISTENS? No one, said George Mecklin to himself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Miss Hyslop, Minnie Devlin, Charlie Devlin, Tenth Street, George Mecklin, Joe Palladino, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, Martha Palladino New!
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WHO LISTENS? No one, said George Mecklin to himself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Miss Hyslop, Minnie Devlin, Charlie Devlin, Tenth Street, George Mecklin, Joe Palladino, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, Martha Palladino New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Desperate Characters: A Novel by Paula Fox on 4 pages
- The Universal Donor (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Craig Nova in Back Matter
- Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace in Back Matter
- The God of Nightmares by Paula Fox in Front Matter
- First Confession by Montserrat Fontes in Back Matter
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- A Servant's Tale: A Novel by Paula Fox in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The God of Nightmares by Paula Fox in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Western Coast: A Novel by Paula Fox in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Coldest Winter : A Stringer in Liberated Europe by Paula Fox in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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