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B. F.'s Daughter (1946)

av John P. Marquand

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The daughter of a powerful industrialist seeks to live on her own terms in this entertaining portrait of the American home front during World War II Polly Fulton, the daughter of one of America's most successful and admired businessmen, lives with her parents and brother in a thirty-room apartment on New York City's Park Avenue. Yet she despises the superficial trappings of wealth and delights in defying convention. In the months before America enters World War II, she shocks her family and friends by dumping her longtime boyfriend, Bob Tasmin, and marrying radical journalist Tom Brett. As the war rages on the other side of the globe and dominates the thoughts of everyone at home, Polly comes to realize that she acted out of pride and contrariness, not love. But with Bob stationed in Guam, it may be too late to correct her terrible mistake. A richly detailed, elegantly crafted tale about the search for happiness in the chaos of wartime, B.F.'s Daughter is one of John P. Marquand's warmest and most empathetic novels.… (mer)

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This book is exceedingly average. There's nothing really wrong with it, except possibly the ending, and there's nothing really great about it, either. The titular character, Polly is extremely flighty, but also amusing. Of the people who populate her world, half of them are genuine, dynamic characters, and half are flat and undeveloped. The plot, what there is of it, keeps veering toward the suspenseful, then backs off. I would say that the descriptions of life in the first half of the 20th century seem genuine and accurate, but the book was published in 1946, so the author didn't have to imagine much in describing an evocative setting.
I generally give a brief synopsis of the storyline in my reviews, but that's pretty much unnecessary here. The book's about B.F.'s daughter, and that's about it. However, for those of you who like a book to end, I have written my own epilogue and I'd like to share it. Spoiler alert!
A short while later, Mildred was killed in a train accident. Polly became Neddie's step-mother, though he still insisted on calling her "Aunt Polly" which caused no small amount of confusion when the three went out in public together. She decided to put the remainder of B.F.'s allowance to her into trust for Neddie and the other children that followed. She and Bob were able to live quite comfortably on his salary from the firm. The war ended, of course, and what Norman Bell had said about nothing before the war seeming to matter proved to be true, with one caveat: not a whole lot that happened during the war mattered much either. The (much better) End. (

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One afternoon in mid-December when Tom had been called suddenly to Washington, Polly took the train from New York to spend the night at their country place in Pyefield.

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The daughter of a powerful industrialist seeks to live on her own terms in this entertaining portrait of the American home front during World War II Polly Fulton, the daughter of one of America's most successful and admired businessmen, lives with her parents and brother in a thirty-room apartment on New York City's Park Avenue. Yet she despises the superficial trappings of wealth and delights in defying convention. In the months before America enters World War II, she shocks her family and friends by dumping her longtime boyfriend, Bob Tasmin, and marrying radical journalist Tom Brett. As the war rages on the other side of the globe and dominates the thoughts of everyone at home, Polly comes to realize that she acted out of pride and contrariness, not love. But with Bob stationed in Guam, it may be too late to correct her terrible mistake. A richly detailed, elegantly crafted tale about the search for happiness in the chaos of wartime, B.F.'s Daughter is one of John P. Marquand's warmest and most empathetic novels.

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