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Anthony Anscombe is the scion of an English banking family and the inheritor of an estate that includes a small Cotswold village. Decent to the point of passivity, he goes through three marriages (and an extramarital liaison), each seemingly less well-advised than the last. Coleridge's laid-back narrative breezes through forty years of Anscombe's life with broad but acute satiric touches. The book is pitched as an uproarious comedy of manners, but ...