The Washington Post, September 16th, 1990
THE FINAL CLUB By Geoffrey Wolff Knopf. 370 pp. $19.95 WHAT OSCAR WILDE reputedly said of the Bible, we might also say of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, This Side of Paradise: When I think of all the harm that book has done, I despair of writing anything to equal it. The harm Fitzgerald inflicted on countless young men was to describe in demonically idyllic tones undergraduate life at Princeton University just before the First World War. Geoffrey Wolff, author of an enduring memoir of his father, The Duke of Deception, has given us a hero, Nathaniel Auerbach Clay, who also reads Scott Fitzgerald...
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