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Ecco
February 2006
On Sale: February 7, 2006
Featuring: Lapham; Harry March
256 pages
ISBN: 0060833610
EAN: 9780060833619
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Harry March's troubles begin when Lapham, a
self-aggrandizing, ostentatious multimillionaire, commences
construction of a 36,000-square-foot house (complete with a
cutting-edge air-conditioner that cools his entire
eight-acre property) directly across the creek from Harry's
island home in Quogue, in the Hamptons. Harry, an island
himself, is something of a wreck and half-nuts, but
principled. His wife has left him for an event planner in
Beverly Hills; he cuts the polo player out of his shirts;
and he speaks mainly with his dog, Hector, a born-again
Evangelical and a capitalist who admires Lapham's
monstrosity as a symbol of American progress. But to Harry,
Lapham represents everything that is ruining modern
civilization. So he sends daily notes to his nemesis by way
of a remote-control toy motorboat, which read: "Mr. Lapham,
tear down that house!" When his efforts fail, he turns to
politics by other means.] Lapham Rising
follows Harry's progress during a single day -- through the
strange habits of Hamptons social life; the power of local
real estate (embodied in Kathy Polite, who advertises her
agency by swimming naked from her boat every morning); the
odd workings of his own mind, such as it is; and into his
elaborate plot to devise a weapon of individual destruction
with which to bring down Lapham and all the Laphams of the
world. Of course, it backfires.
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