HOMECOMING (400 pp.)C. P. Snow Scribner ($3.95).
Two-thirds of the way through Homecoming, two erstwhile lovers meet and lave a chat some time after the girl has married another man:
" T haven't much to tell you,' I said. " 'Tell me what there is.' " 'It could be worse.' " 'You've always been ready to bear it, haven't you?'
" 'No. my life isn't intolerable,' I said. " 'But what?'
" 'There's not much in it,' I replied." The "I" of the dialogue is Lewis Eliot, a middle-aging, upper-echelon British bureaucrat and the grimace-and-bear-it hero of...
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