Poorboy At The Party [Paperback]

One of Gover's key novels, Poorboy at the Party explores American economic class differences from the perspective of Randy, a university student from the wrong side of the tracks, who is brought to the party by his friend Arnold, a homosexual and old money heir. The party is held at a large, ornate beach house containing art objects collected by the owner.? Everyone at the party except Randy is a son or daughter of the rich and powerful.? As the party begins, Randy entertains the possibility of marrying into this privileged social realm.? Then, as the party disintegrates into a drunken gang bang and orgy of wanton wrecking, Randy reads the party's dynamics as an omen suggesting that those who have confiscated the nation's wealth will eventually self-destruct.? Although this novel was written and published in the sixties, its theme is as contemporary as the Occupy Movement of the two thousand teens.

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