THE SUMMER HOUSES (278 pp.) James Stevenson Macmillan ($4.95).
Linked by an umbilical causeway to a shadowy mainland. Great Heron Island is the summer nesting place of a memorable colony of rare social birds. It swims in a body of water carefully left vague by the author but which readers will have no trouble at all locating due south of O'Hara Point, due east of Marquand
Sound. On Great Heron, the great divide is not between rich and poor; there are no poor. It is the lingering schism from the great debate of 1942. when family was set against family over...
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