Testing the current
By: by William McPherson ; introduction by D.T. Max
Series: New York review books Classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781590176023
Subjects: Youth; Depressions; Fiction
Description: Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at the country club, tennis dates and rounds of golf, holiday parties, summers on The Island, and the many sparkling occasions full of people and drinks and food and laughter. With his curiosity and impatience to grow up, however, Tommy will soon come to glimpse something darker beneath the genteel complacency.