FAR FROM THE CUSTOMARY SKIES (372 pp.)Warren EysterRandom House ($3.75).
It is a novelist's duty to tell a story, but it is risky to retell one. Warren Eyster, 28, a Navy veteran of World War II, performs his duty fairly well in Far from the Customary Skies, a first novel about the island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific as seen from a destroyer. The trouble is that Author Eyster's book trails in the wake of half a dozen naval novels published since 1945 and never sets a clear course of its own.
The savvy stay-at-home...
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