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This classic novel is the story of what happens when an idealistic, fiercely honest young man tries to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with the realities of America of the 1940s. In this brilliantly comic and pungent tale, Lardner dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, repressive sexual attitudes, the Manhattan nightclub set, "enlightened" penology, vigilantism, and other social phenomena. The ecstasy which Owen Muir seeks is of both the earthly and the spiritual kind, and his wonderfully funny fate lies in the fact that he cannot have his flesh and eat it, too.
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Stuart Lichten
reviewed The Ecstacy of Owen Muir on July 02, 2007
The Ecstacy of Owen Muir
I was pleasantly surprised to find that Lardner Jr. is just as talented as his father was. It's obvious that he was an intellectual and it shows nicely here in his rebuke of thoughts and things ignorant, limiting and conspiratorial.
An autobiographical (but fictionalized) look at his time spent imprisoned by faulty logic. Lardner was swept up in the red scare movement and refused to list names at the famous McCarthy hearings. "I'd hate myself in the morning" he famously said on the stand. As a result he was blacklisted and banned from Hollywood. Later in his career he helped write the award winning script for the "MASH" movie.
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