Volume 20, Number 4 · March 22, 1973
Jonathan, Benny, and Solitude
By Thomas R. Edwards
The Devil Tree
by Jerzy Kosinski
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 208 pp., $6.95
The Autograph Hound
by John Lahr
Knopf, 239 pp., $6.95
A Woman Named Solitude
by André Schwarz-Bart, translated by Ralph Manheim
Atheneum, 179 pp., $5.95
Kosinski's The Devil Tree offers us the life and thoughts of Jonathan James Whalen, a poor little rich boy returned from his Wanderjahre in Africa, Burma, and (yes) Katmandu to take up his burden of home-grown angst. Having made do on an allowance of $25,000 a month, he now, as the orphaned heir to a major steel fortune, has to learn how to be really rich, which isn't so easy when you're under thirty, just a little crazy, and mixed up about sex, drugs, your parents, death, and other bad trips.
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