Playbill
August, 1979
Jane Austen's Line that "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" comes to mind as we look at our August line-up, filled with stories of men whose pleasures would be, to the minds of many, no less than extreme pain. Irwin Shaw's hero, for instance, in The Top of the Hill, Part I of our excerpt from his forthcoming novel of the same title (published by Delacorte), feels that his life's worth living only when he's grinning down danger and death. But if Shaw's t...
