Books

November, 1981

Peter De Vries tries to turn women's liberation into an extended joke in Sauce for the Goose (Little, Brown). Daisy Dobbin is chosen to move into corporate America and, excuse the phrase, root out incidents of male sexual harassment against women in their employ. That situation could be funny, and on occasion, De Vries pulls off a humorous scene (for example, when Daisy foils a seducer by bragging about her former lover--"And the nozzle on him. Really party size."). But most of this bo...