LAMENT FOR FOUR VIRGINS (368 pp.)Lael TuckerRandom House ($3.50).
There are four of themthe darling daughters of the best families in townall young, all restless, all dying for a big romance. They sip their Cokes hopefully, they pump each other carefully, they whip their cars ostentatiously through the streets of Andalusia, Ga. It is all because of the new rector, Mark Barbee, who is giving the Episcopal service a lilt such as Andalusia has never heard before. When the four girls kneel in his church, Rector Barbee suspects they have come "not to worship...
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