Art

September, 1972

Previews: "Big" books for the approaching fall season come, as usual, in two models--those that promise to excite the interest of critics and those that promise to cheer the lives of accountants. In the former category is John Barth's first book since Giles Goat-Boy, which appeared in 1966. Titled Chimera, it is based on the myths of Scheherazade, Perseus and Bellerophon. In the second category is The Stepford Wives, a new chiller by Ira Levin, author of the cash-register-ringing Rosem...