Books
March, 1971
The advance blurbs for James Jones's The Merry Month of May (Delacorte) claim that it's "about" the 1968 student/ worker upheavals in France. Actually, it is about another kind of disruption: the sexual self-indulgence, and its effects, of an American family living in Paris-with the revolution de mai as background. Harry Gallagher is a screenwriter having an affair with a scornful black woman named Samantha-Marie, who happens to have a letch for Gallagher's virtuous wife. Gallagher's s...
