The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss (January 1964)
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Overview: Widely considered Louis Auchincloss’s greatest novel, The Rector of Justin is an astute dissection of the social mores of the Northeast’s privileged establishment.
The story centers on Rev. Frank Prescott, the charismatic founder and rector of a prestigious Episcopal school for boys. With laser-sharp insight, Auchincloss delivers a prismatic portrait of this commanding and complicated man through the eyes of those who knew—or thought they knew—him best.
Seamlessly interweaving multiple points of view—from an adoring teacher to that of a rebellious daughter—The Rector of Justin presents a social history of the eighty years of his life: the sources of his virtues and failings, his successes, his love, and his crises of faith.
Genre: Fiction, Literary
"The Rector is the Reverend Francis Prescott, D.D., the founder-headmaster of Justin Martyr, a venerable, Episcopal New England secondary school of high caste and character. This then is a prismatic portrait of Dr. Prescott, who has now reached the end of some eighty forceful years, as seen through the sometimes coincident, sometimes contradictory interpretations of his family and associates. Brian Aspinwall, a shy epicene young protege of Prescott’s assembles the evidence; the memoir of a decadent dilettante, once Prescott’s school friend and satellite; the verbal confidences of his third daughter– another Cordelia, whose love affair he had demolished; the testimony of one of his first students who became one of the school’s trustees, and of that man’s son whom he had expelled in a particularly vindictive episode; etc. etc. Leviathan? legend? charlatan? man of God or God among men? Prescott was many things to many people and his story is told with a discretion which is more appropriate than animated. Still, this is Auchincloss’ first novel in some years which has gone beyond and below the superficial sheen of New York and Newport to provide a story of more substance, one in which character is shaped and shaded within its very definite social, intellectual and provincial environment. Its selection by the Book-of-the-Month club should extend a sphere of influence outside the ivy-and-moss covered purlieu of New England academia." ~KirkusDownload Instructions:
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