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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS (298 pp.)-Philip Roth-Houghton Mifflin...
...JOHN WOOD CASE (314 pp.)-Ruth Suckow- Viking...
TIME WALKED (177 pp.)-Vera Panovo -Arlington Books...
KING OF PONTUS (208 pp.)-Alfred Duggan-Coward-McCann...
Foil for the Lonely. Christopher Isherwood, who owns the most mellifluous name since Hiawatha, started All the Conspirators (New Directions; 255 pp.; $3) in 1926, when he was 21. It is a much better than fair first novel, although not a very robust one. It is really a school piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none...