A Harvard reunion prompts a Boston Brahmin's search for meaning in this comedy of manners by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Point of No Return.
In preparation for the twenty-fifth reunion of his class at Harvard, Harry Pulham is asked to collect and edit the personal histories of his fellow alumni.
A glance at the previous year's class book tells him just how tedious the assignment will be: I have been very busy all this time practising corporation law and trying to raise a family, a typical entry reads.
I still like to go to the football games and cheer for Harvard.
Harry's autobiography is almost indistinguishable from those of his classmates.
From his career at a Boston investment firm to his marriage to childhood friend Kay Motford, he has always made the safe, familiar choice--with one exception.
For a brief interlude after World War I, Harry joined an advertising agency in Manhattan and fell in love with a beautiful, independent woman unlike anyone he had ever met.
A wholly unexpected future opened up for him in those few months, but when family obligations called him back to New England, the relationship came to a sudden end.
Now, twenty years later, Harry believes that his story could not have turned out any other way.
A clever satire that achieves heartbreaking poignancy, H.
Pulham, Esquire is a masterpiece from the author declared by the New York Times to be our foremost fictional chronicler of the well-born.
About the Author John P.
Marquand (1893-1960) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, proclaimed the most successful novelist in the United States by Life magazine in 1944.
A descendant of governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, shipping magnates Daniel Marquand and Samuel Curzon, and famed nineteenth-century writer Margaret Fuller, Marquand always had one foot inside the blue-blooded New England establishment, the focus of his social satire.
But he grew up on the outside, sent to live with maiden aunts in Newburyport, Massachuse.
