THE OUTER EDGES (240 pp.)CAar/es JacksonRineharf ($2.75).
Charles Jackson has written six novels; only three (including The Lost Weekend and The Fall of Valor) have been published. His latest should have stayed in the trunk.
Like his others, The Outer Edges is a sort of chapter from Freud-made-easy; it burrows clinically into some untidy closets of human guilt and frustration. In his first book, he managed to put most of his readers in a dipsomaniac's shoes. In his second, on homosexuality, he was nowhere near so persuasive. Now he has written about a grisly...
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