The sordid, partially faux memoir Primates of Park Avenue dissects the upper crust of Manhattan. Edith Wharton’s classic novel The Custom of the Country does all that and more. It is a ruthless, illuminating, frequently uproarious examination of high-class relationships between men and women told from the perspective of an assimilating outsider--Wharton’s is Undine Spragg of fictional Apex, Kansas.
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