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John Marquand was considered the most successful novelist of his time, and this book won him the Pulitzer. It is a telling of the life of the late George Apley, of the (fictitious) Apley family of Boston. His life is reconstructed through letters and is both scathing of the Boston elite and also rather poignant. George cannot escape the strictures of his wealthy family; he correctly eventually understands his place i