THE LOST STEPS (278 pp.)Alejo CarpenfierKnopf ($3.75).
Rare is the urban man of the 20th century who has not dreamed of a return to a life more innocent and less complicated. A weekend of fishing will answer for some. Others dream of a chicken farm when the annuity begins to pay off. The lucky ones actually buy an island in the Caribbean or off the coast of Maine. But they seldom stick it out. For the tragedy of the modern Robinson Crusoe is that he cannot seem to shake off the hold of modern life....
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