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Set in the 1960's, "Object Lessons" concerns three generations of a rich Irish clan who live in an established inner suburb of New York City....The patriarch, John Scanlan, is a lively figure....One of his sons, Tom, rebels by marrying a handsome, lower-class Italian girl. It is their daughter Maggie who is trying desperately to master some object lessons during her 12 year old summer.....Quindlen is at her best writing about the dislocations of growing up, the blows a child does not see coming.