LINDEN ON THE SAUGUS BRANCH (401 pp.) Elliot Paul Random House ($3.50).
Elliot Paul is a literary handyman who once announced that he had found Paradise and went to live there. When his paradise (the village of Santa Eulalia on the Balearic island of Iviza) was bombed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Paul got out and wrote the moving Life and Death of a Spanish Town. Six years later, wearing his nostalgia for Paris on his sleeve, he hit the bell again with The Last Time I Saw Paris, a gamy, garlicky recollection of Left Bank...
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