Volume 27, Number 20 · December 18, 1980

Balancing Act

By Josh Rubins
Aberration of Starlight
by Gilbert Sorrentino

Random House, 213 pp., $9.95

At the Shores
by Thomas Rogers

Simon & Schuster, 284 pp., $11.95

In a Manhattan bookstore the other day, a knowing browser in suede picked up a copy of Gilbert Sorrentino's latest novel, turned it about in gingerly appraisal, and said to a friend: 'I've heard that…this new book of his…, well, supposedly it…tells a story.'



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