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The Official Preppy Handbook
by Jonathan Roberts, Carol McD. Wallace, Mason Wiley, Lisa Birnbach

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Author: Carol McD. Wallace, Jonathan Roberts, Lisa Birnbach, Mason Wiley
Editor: Oliver Williams
Illustrator: Robin Holland
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1980-10
ISBN: 0894801406
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Workman Publishing

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Book Review: Social Satire: A Timeless Classic
Summary: 4 Stars

Funny and accurate, this book satirizes the manners and style of America's upper crust. What made it so successful in the eighties is that it is simultaneously a satire, for those in the know, and an actual handbook, for those hoping to pass as socially upwardly mobile. Some features are a bit out of date by now, but overall it is timeless. Might there be an updated second edition in the works?

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