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"Meritocracy is the story of a generation when it was young, caught at the moment when history arrived to exact a tragic and inevitable price. It is the end of the summer of 1966 and a small group of friends, recent Yale graduates, gather in a Maine summer cottage to say good-bye to one of their own. Harry Nolan is joining the Army and may be sent to Vietnam. Also present is Harry's beautiful young bride, Sascha." "Harry and Sascha represent to their friends the apex of their generation. Sascha has men falling for her "up and down the eastern seaboard," and Harry, a rich and fearless…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2005Other Press · 168 pages · 9781590511985
- Other · English · 2004Other Press · 163 pages · 9781590511428
College graduatesFictionMale friendshipSummer resortsVietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975Vietnam War, 1961-1975Fiction, romance, generalFiction, romance, historical, general