Volume 25, Number 20 · December 21, 1978
Missing Connections
By Alfred Kazin
The Lover
by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Philip Simpson
Doubleday, 352 pp., $10.00
Haifa at the opening of the Yom Kippur war. A prospering, blond-bearded, lonely garage owner discovers that his coldly hysterical schoolteacher wife has a lover, and that the lover has disappeared into the first confusion of the war. The army has no record of him. The husband sets out to find the lover and restore him to the wife.
Review, 1068 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |