Books: The American's Castle

LIFE AT HAPPY KNOLL (167 pp.) — John P. Marquand— Little, Brown ($3.75).

In all the sociological fiction and fictional sociology on suburb and exurb, remarkably little has been written about the country club. The Charley Grays may occasionally get high there beyond the point of no return, or men in grey flannel suits may make unconvincing passes at fellow members' wives, but no one ever did a full-dress, inside-the-country-club story—until that Boswell of the American upper middle class, John P. Marquand, took on the task. Life at Happy Knoll (a series...

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