Books: The Ability to Loathe

ONE OF THE FOUNDERS by P. H. Newby. 285 pp. Lippincott. $4.95.

One evening after a hard day at the office, a chap named Hedges is met at the front door by Mrs. Hedges, who hands him a stiff shot of sherry and a nasty bit of news: he is now, and for several months has been, a cuckold. A bit of rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he...

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