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Testing the Current
Contributor(s): McPherson, William (Author), Max, D. T. (Afterword by)
ISBN: 1590176022     ISBN-13: 9781590176023
Publisher: New York Review of Books
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Family Life - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2012016607
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.12" W x 8.21" (0.76 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher 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 sparkling occasions full of people and drinks and food and laughter. But curious as he is and impatient to grow up, Tommy will soon come to glimpse the darkness that lies beneath so much genteel complacency: hidden histories and embarrassing poor relations; the subtle (and not so subtle) slighting of the "help"; the mockery of President Roosevelt; and "the commandment they talked least about in Sunday school," adultery.

In Testing the Current William McPherson subtly sets off his wide-eyed protagonist's perspective with mature reflection and wry humor and surrounds him with a cast of vibrant characters, creating a scrupulously observed portrait of a place and time that will shimmer in readers' minds long after the final page is turned.