Book Rec of the Day 2/6/2007

Marquand’s novel of Boston Brahmin privilege was published seventy years ago, but its pleasures still abound. Here are prep schools and Harvard-Yale games, private clubs and Beacon Hill brownstones, and amid the details of high society is the story of a man and the measure of his life. Marquand won praise (“a very searching novel of America”—The New York Times Book Review) and the Pulitzer Prize for his novel.

THE LATE GEORGE APLEY, by John P. Marquand (1937; Back Bay Books, 2004)