![]() Barack Obama has just been elected president, and the “extraordinarily ordinary” Lena Rusch, an overly capable heroine in the style of a 21st-century Lily Bart, is giving a party on credit. Joining the pack is Carol Edgarian’s “Three Stages of Amazement,” an expansive novel (with a lamentably fussy title) about the intricate economies of the American marriage. In the last year or so, we had “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” by Jess Walter “Model Home,” by Eric Puchner “The Privileges,” by Jonathan Dee “Union Atlantic,” by Adam Haslett and “Dear Money,” by Martha McPhee. The economy may still be sluggish, but it’s been a veritable boom time for novels concerning the problems of people of privilege, those particularly American tragedies where folks with money, education and nice teeth invent elaborate ways to mess up their lives. ![]()
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