You should definitely read this book, if only for the sole purpose of reassuring yourself that your life is definitely, enormously, ridiculously better than Lowell Lake's, whose charmed, though boring, youth (he unwittingly blackmails a local politician into paying for his Stanford education--he ...
The late L. J. Davis is best known as a journalist but, early in his career, published four novels, all of which are very funny, utterly unsentimental depictions of New York in the 60s and early 70s, through the eyes of similar, nebbishy protagonists who, it seems safe to say, bore more than a pa...