Books
May, 1956
"And then, in fifteen minutes in a little stinking summer resort beside a lake, the whole thing collapsed." The whole thing, in this case, happens to be the lives of three grade-A bunglers in Irwin Shaw's painful, penetrating novel of a sour marriage, Lucy Crown (Random House, §3.95), and a corking good one it is. Lucy is a 35-year-old upper-middle-class knockout who chooses adultery as her favorite form of self expression, gets caught between the sheets by her sensitive son, is nailed...
