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Title: Diary of a Yuppie (Thorndike Large Print Americana Series) by Louis Auchincloss ISBN: 0-89621-746-9 Publisher: Thorndike Pr (Largeprint) Pub. Date: October, 1986 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $16.95

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Comment: "Diary of a Yuppie" purports to be two things - and fails to achieve a sense of either. In no particular order, it claims to be a diary - a journal of daily goings on, both mundane and monumental, but all pretty much exhibiting the narrator's consignment to the prison of the here and now. Bereft of any foreshadowing, a true journal has no apparent sense of the was and would be. But author Louis Auchincloss never gives his unappealing protagonist the sense of being the center of his universe and living only for the moment. Instead, the hero is constantly pronouncing - it was not to be, or that plans were not going to work out. Worse, the protagonist is not even the central moral authority - that role goes to the hero's wife, constantly exposing the hero's shallowness. It's hard to believe that the central charachter is so self-centered when he yields the central role of his own story to another. Being that the self-centered hero isn't self-centered enough to own his own book, it's hard to visualize him as a yuppie - one of those trend-hungry, status-seeking urban denizens rendered extinct in the late-1980's. All charachters in "Diary" seem too "old-money", too entrenched in the old order that true Yuppies committed themselves to destroying. Auchincloss' yuppie is the last guy in the world you'd see lighting up - let alone inhaling. The hero's cultural background is too old-fashioned for those homo-sapiens who brought CD's to the market and fought the stigmas of multiple bankruptcy or early retirement. Even the idea of a journal seems closer to the self-absorbed slacker 1990's than the yuppie's that Auchincloss wants to portray. As a poorly conceived depiction of Yuppie-dom, "Diary" fails to satisfy, with the hero's moral dilemmas involving less of the hero than his reaction to the sufferings of others - abandones law partners, ex-wives, colleagues and relatives. This is the novel where the hero's greatest challenege is whether to stick with the upper-crust lawfirm that had nurtured him from law school. Pack it in your Beamer and forget about it.