ZESTCharles G. NorrisDoubleday, Doran ($2).
A big $2 worth (445 pp., five love affairs), Zest is the fifth of Author Norris' monosyllabic titles. There is little apparent connection between the title and the story, whose key is given in the motto- quotation from Isaiah: "And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day." All seven in Zest get a good grip on the hero, though (Biblically speaking) he is on knowledgeable terms with only four.
Bob Gillespie was an innocuously ordinary type. Put through college and launched in San Francisco business and society...