Volume 5, Number 6 · October 28, 1965
The World is Not a Wedding
By Eve Auchincloss
At the Crossroads
by Evan S. Connell Jr.
Simon & Schuster, 256 pp., $5.50
The Fencing Master
by Gilbert Rogin
Random House, 209 pp., $4.95
Yes From No Man's Land
by Bernard Kops
Coward, McCann, 207 pp., $4.50
These three books are written in puzzled indignation at the prospect of the ominous, unchartable wilderness of life in our times. If they don't come to any terms with it, they do at any rate break into occasional fits of a tonic gallows humor. There are no rewards of plot, few of character; instead the reader is chiefly confronted with the personality of the writer and its response to the incomprehensible: Connell's tentative cruelty, Rogin's luscious self-pity, Kops's artless anger.
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