''The Sporting Club'' is the 1968

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of author

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Plot summary

''The Sporting Club'' chronicles the friendship and rivalry of Vernor Stanton, an unstable patrician iconoclast, and the protagonist, Stanton's lifelong friend, James Quinn. Throughout the course of the novel, Stanton enlists Quinn on a series of misadventures and wild episodes, the aim of which is to ultimately destabilize the Centennial Club, a summer sporting resort for upper-class Michigan families, of which both men are members.

Film adaptation

''The Sporting Club'' was adapted into a 1971 movie by director

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and screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr. The film starred Nicolas Coster as Quinn,

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as Stanton, and

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as Stanton's wife, Janey.

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