MARQUAND: AN AMERICAN LIFE by Millicent Bell
Atlantic-Little, Brown; 537 pages; $17.95
Novelist John Phillips Marquand died only two decades ago, but social realities and the American literary scene have changed so thoroughly that Millicent Bell's thoughtful biography has become a work of archaeology. Marquand was a master of the literary flashback, now a wholly owned subsidiary of cinema, and a satirist of the rich, who have been depleted by taxes and supplanted by rock promoters and multinational executives.
He came from a family of decayed gentry whose life centered on a summer home...
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