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...reader may feel at this point that what he needs is not zwieback but a drink. There is no shortage of wry, clever novels by and about overwrought young mothers. And initially this unassuming first novel by Johanna Davis seems to be a fairly conventional example of obstetrical fiction. Its heroine, a likable, gifted young Manhattan woman named Camilla Ryder, is dismayed during her second pregnancy to discover that her mind has gone womby. She hears voices, sees things that aren't there, frightens her husband with screams in the night, gobbles uppers given to her by a dippy...
Quite apart from the sex war, a reader is appalled by the pinched, gray world of office work that the book describes. Korda makes any number of unwitting condescensions toward women. Perhaps the biggest is his final exhortation to men: "Ask women to join...
...dust jacket of this amiable manual for layabouts asks of the prospective reader, "Why should you let Rust Hills tell you how to run your life?" But anyone acquainted with Hills' previous book, How to Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Man, knows that the author, far from being interested in running the reader's life, refuses even to run his own. Instead he walks it, as if it were an elderly dog. That is his pride, and he has earned it. As he explains, he was the fiction editor of Esquire and then...
...obvious enough in synopsis, is dark and intricate in the working out. His language is artfully chosen to match the slowly quickening mood of the narration. He gives Ned and Beth a 19th century primness that undermines the here and now, a teasing contrast to the unsettling suspicions the reader is beginning to entertain...
Details of Ned's downfall have no place in a review. They provide superior shivers and inevitably involve placid Mrs. Ranchwagon, Ned's mild suburban wife Beth. The beguiled reader concludes that Author Tryon should in deed turn serious, but there should be no complaint if he offers several more volumes of excellent nonsense before doing...