Mr. Prohack
Arthur Prohack is a man who has made peace with his modest existence as a Treasury official, content in the quiet dignity of his unremarkable life. Then comes an unexpected inheritance, a fortuitous investment, and suddenly the Prohacks find themselves wealthy beyond their imagining. But money, it turns out, is the easy part. What follows is a mercilessly funny account of how sudden fortune unravels a family in ways none of them anticipated: his wife develops expensive ambitions, his son discovers that money changes everything except himself, and Mr. Prohack himself begins to suspect that the old humdrum life possessed a charm he's only now appreciating. Bennett skewers the English middle classes with a precision that feels almost cruel, yet impossibly kind. The satire has teeth, but so does its affection for these ridiculous, recognizable people.
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