Volume 24, Number 13 · August 4, 1977
Temptations
By Thomas R. Edwards
The Morley Mythology
by Austin Wright
Harper & Row, 308 pp., $10.95
Kingkill
by Thomas Gavin
Random House, 398 pp., $10.00
In each of these bright and technically lively new novels, a clerkly but ambitious person—in one case a college dean, in the other a chess master—encounters a tricky tempter who offers, among other things, money and sexual delight. In both cases loss of occupation and derangement of values follow close on, and the Faustian experience brings—if nothing worse—a sense of personal history that can be neither renounced nor adequately understood.
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