SON OF DUST (288 pp.) H. F. M. Presco//Macm/7/an ($.3.75).
Fulcun Geroy is damned as only a man can be who passionately loves both God and woman. The lord of Montgaudri, a fief on the borders of 11th century Normandy, Fulcun spends the opening chapter trying to nerve himself to ravish a comely peasant girl. But when he finally decides to act, he discovers that the girl has already been raped by his loutish younger brother. In rage and remorse, Fulcun "hated the whole of human kind.
He knew now . . . how God must hate the vile and shameful flesh."
His...
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