This was like an awkward combination of [a:Edward Streeter|448083|Edward Streeter|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-3fbaf32fc1fc48e6ffaf3f63a026f0ff.png] and Don Draper, without the endearing humor of the former and the realistic cynicism of the latter. I did enjoy the mid-century ad agency plot, though! ( )

I read this many years ago, as a horse-mad teenager. Never knew the name of the book, as it had been lent to me by a friend of my father's. Now that I have grown, I am wondering exactly who lent me the book, as my father worked for Union Bank in Beverly Hills at the time this book was being promoted as a movie script.

At any rate, I found the book most amusing when I was a teenager, and I still love it now. 30 years after my first reading, I am still a horse-mad teenager inside! ( )