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Upper Class Porn takes place during the summer of 1977 in a wealthy
suburb of Manhattan, a town with old names and old estates. One of
these old estates is owned by Rodney Luger, an investment banker,
who has seen better days as he tries to live in his Ivy League
past. With the stock market experiencing a lackluster period the
recently divorced Rodney decides to rent rooms out in his large
Victorian home. The people who come to stay at the Lugers' live in
their own worlds both very different from each other and different
from Rodney's. These worlds start to collide in both humorous and
frightening ways reminiscent of a cross between Arsenic and Old
Lace and Catcher in the Rye. Carter, the first tenant, is a WWII
vet who charges through the house a great deal dressed in tennis
whites and armed with Johnny Walker Red as he sees Japanese
soldiers around every corner. Alice, who moves in shortly
afterwards, is both frightening and sexually demonic, and she
discovers a secret hidden within the local Episcopal church, a
secret which is over 120 years old. Added to this mix is Rodney's
younger brother Jake who moves into a third floor bedroom with his
girlfriend Kate and their 150 pound Newfoundland Oliver. Jake is a
budding journalist and Kate is heading into graduate studies in
psychology after finishing up at Sarah Lawrence. Oliver is a chow
hound who understands people. When Rodney's two prep-school age
sons return home from Cape Cod that summer things start to heat up.
The Upper Class society of this town has never seen the likes of
the chemistry created by all of these characters as they rattle the
world of the country club and its inhabitants along the way. It is
the summer of fear of the Son of Sam and a major blackout in New
York City just over the hill from the Lugers'. It is a summer none
of them will ever forget. There is a mystery behind the characters
and, in many ways, only Oliver can see through it all until the
end.
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
What if you had to be at a particular train station in England at a
particular time on a particular day and you didn't know why? What
if you met that one person there that meant everything to you but
you hadn't met before and she had been compelled to be at that
station at that time on that day as well? What if many things
between you were familiar but yet you didn't know why? In The
Commodore these are the questions that Jack and Emma ask themselves
as they meet for the first time in a train station in Fleet,
England in June of 2001. They had to be there and as they talk they
inadvertently bring up connections between themselves that they had
not been familiar with until they met on this day. As a train
arrives at Fleet Station in December of 1942, in war torn England,
military analysts Sam Harbour and Madison Bell are quietly joking
with each about something that becomes familiar to Jack and Emma on
that June day in 2001. From Eisenhower's secret London bunker to
FDR's Hyde Park estate Madison Bell and Sam Harbour try to change
history.
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