Ocean vu, jog to beach: A novel

Clement Biddle Wood

ISBN 10: 0312018304 / ISBN 13: 9780312018306

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 1988

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Rezensionen: They want it all and they want it now. Are they: a) Children; b) Yuppies; or c) Both? Answer: all of the above, though in this sociological study as comic novel, the emphasis is on b. A summer house on an upscale Long Island beach is rented by an attorney and his live-in fiancee, but it doesn't come cheap. So despite the local anti-grouper laws, the house is shared with the fiancee's novelist sister, an archetypical jock sportswriter, a preppy black arbitrageur and her man of the moment, and two ex-athlete insurance salesmen brothers. Plus Soviet emigre poet V. Y. Ouspenskiy, who records the "workplay" of these Y-persons (who are loathe to use the Y-word themselves) as they face fire and tornado and their relationships change. The structure may annoy or the characters appear stereotypical, but this is an outlandish romp, grounded in truth. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
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Yuppies renting summer houses on the Long Island shore are easy targets for broad humor, but Wood, author of Welcome to the Club, has more than easy potshots for the group that takes over Slocum House from the end of May to early September. A nucleusWall Street lawyer Clive Wheelwright and his fiancee Moira Fairchildexpands to include Dreda Scott, a hotshot black arbitrageur, Stu Stuart, who writes for Sports Illustrated, and Moira's sister Catherine, an aspiring novelist. Stu brings in two former football players from Boston College, and Catherine finds V. Y. Ouspenskiy, Russian emigre poet and sociologist manque, who, as the book's narrator, reports his housemates' strange behavior with both professional and cultural distance. Once Vlady gives up footnotes and occasional linguistic lapses (he has an "oxsent"), his acute observationson "work-play" for instance, as in Clive's playing tennis with a senior partner from his firmare on the mark. As Vlady grows increasingly attached to them all, this houseful of yuppies breaks through the stereotype to become people to care about. While Clive becomes disenchanted with yuppie tenets and the various couples gradually rearrange themselves, the narrative moves smartly to its melee of a resolution. Lively and entertaining, this comedy of summer manners proves there's life beyond Labor Day.
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Bibliografische Details

Titel: Ocean vu, jog to beach: A novel
Verlag: St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket