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A Fortunate Age.(A Fortunate Age: A Novel)(Brief article)(Book review)
This debut novel updates Mary McCarthy's "The Group," a satirical portrait of nineteen-thirties Vassar graduates, for the late-nineties boom years in Manhattan, where six Oberlin graduates struggle to make it as writers, actors, musicians, and academics. The novel ably captures the zeitgeist, with venture capitalists financing magazines headed by M.I.T. prodigies and young people worrying about the gentrification of their ...
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