John Cheever

Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friends pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley (imdb)

Georges Clou lives in Le Parc, a luxurious private town on the Côte d'Azur. Rich and solitary, Paul Marteau leads a melancholy, idle existence. Torn between his harsh judgment of the world and his desire to belong, Marteau settles in Le Parc. Clou sees an opportunity for sincere friendship. Marteau finds a new reason to live: to destroy the ideal of Western man's happiness embodied by the Clou family. (wikipedia)