Books: Peaceful Summer

CANDLES IN THE STORM—Robert Littell—Harper ($2.50).

The novelist who confines his story to a cruise at sea, a cross-country trip, a sea- son, a day, a year, simplifies his problem. The "unity of time" in itself gives him beginning and end. Robert Littell adapts this classic formula to his novel of an artists' summer colony located somewhere north of Boston. The people arrive in June. In October they leave. What happens in between constitutes the story.

The Woodruffs are already there when the Crawfords...

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