The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamounts society parties are determinedto push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family tolive ... » 

The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamounts society parties are determinedto push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family tolive with Walter Walter is in love with the luscious but coldhearted Lucy whodevours every man in sight the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls forthe sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling andwitty conversation. Often described as a Vanity Fair for the Twenties PointCounter Point contains wickedly accurate portraits of D. H. Lawrence KatherineMansfield Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself. «