Poor George

Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral purpose, George discovers a local adolescent named Ernest breaking into his house. Rather than hand the boy over to the police, as his nagging wife insists, George instead decides to tutor him. His life consequently implodes. Filled with vividly acid portrayals of American life in the 1960s, prescient explorations of suburban anomie, and a riotously disturbing cast of supporting characters, Poor George is a classic American novel--further reminder of Paula Fox's astonishing literary gifts.

With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

Author: Paula Fox
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/06/2011
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.50w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780393321319

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/04/2000 pg. 55
Harper's Bazaar 02/01/2001 pg. 168
Entertainment Weekly 03/23/2001 pg. 105
New York Review of Books 04/25/2002 pg. 47
New Yorker (The) 05/16/2011 pg. 120

About the Author
Fox, Paula: - Paula Fox (1923--2017) was the author of Desperate Characters, The Widow's Children, A Servant's Tale, The God of Nightmares, Poor George, The Western Coast, and Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, among other books.Lethem, Jonathan: - Jonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine.