Volume 33, Number 20 · December 18, 1986
The Wild Blue Yonder
By Robert Towers
Diary of a Yuppie
by Louis Auchincloss
Houghton Mifflin, 215 pp., $16.95
Pubis Angelical
by Manuel Puig, translated by Elena Brunet
Random House/Vintage, 250 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Paper Doll
by Jim Shepard
Knopf, 228 pp., $15.95
In his twenty-ninth book of fiction, Louis Auchincloss has chosen to write about the most publicized (if not productive) pursuit of Reaganesque capitalism: the engrossing game of corporate takeovers. The novel's subject, matching its title in trendiness, would seem to provide an ideal occasion for this prolific lawyer-novelist, who is sometimes regarded as the trustee, or administrator, of the moral and social inheritance of 'Old' New York, to dramatize once more that favorite theme of his—the conflict between honorable practice, as defined by an inherited ethos, and sleazy opportunism, whether indulged in by a brash upstart or by 'someone who should know better.'
Review, 3570 words
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