The Hazards of Good Breeding: A Novel

by Jessica Shattuck

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W. W. Norton Co, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Great book! Mild shelf wear on dj, tiny mark on edge. From Publishers Weekly Shattuck's debut novel is a social comedy, with flashes of darker import, about an upper-crust Boston suburban family forced to come to terms with the pressures of contemporary life and the ways in which they succeed, or more frequ ISBN: 0393051323.

Book summary

The Dunlap family is falling apart. Faith has left Jack after 22 years. Jack has dismissed Rosita, the suddenly pregnant housekeeper, devastating 10-year-old Eliot. Caroline is drifting after her graduation from Harvard. And a shady filmmaker she's in love with wants to include the Dunlaps in his examination of WASP culture and old money. In this humorous novel, it's young Eliot who finally sets in motion the events that may redeem them all. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

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