Society Meets the Sixties
The aristos flock to a party. The brownies are spiked with hashish.
By Martin Rubin
Wall Street Journal August 30, 2009
Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes; St. Martin’s, 410 pages, $24.99
Anyone who has seen “Gosford Park” (2001) knows that Julian Fellowes, the movie’s screenwriter, has a knack for mocking the foibles of the British upper crust. In his novel “Snobs” (2005) he skewered the inhabitants of the same milieu even more savagely. “Past Imperfect” shows Mr. Fellowes’s satirical talents to be undiminished. Here, though, he offers a rounded portrait of an aristocratic gratin fighting to preserve its customs and defend its turf. . . .
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