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Article: HUMOR, INSIGHT IN PRIVILEGED PERSPECTIVE.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 7, 1996
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Byline: RENEE ELLEN OLANDER
THE EDUCATION OF OSCAR FAIRCLOTH
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
Houghton Mifflin. 225 pp. $22.95.
In The Education of Oscar Faircloth, Louis Auchincloss mines the same territory that he has mined in 50 previous works of fiction and nonfiction. This is another amusing novel of manners about the upper crust, people whose privilege seems to insulate them from the hardships of living through the social, political, cultural and moral crises of our time.
This dip into the refined world of the Upper East Side and Westchester,exclusive boarding schools and generations of sons (surprise!) who follow their fathers' ...