LOVE, ROGER by Charles Webb. 188 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $4.95.
The relationship between cinema and the novel has long been a give-and-take proposition, with the novel mostly the giver. Every once in a redeeming while, a novelist of potential import who otherwise might have been lost in the publishing shuffle, comes to the top of the deck when the movies make a deal for his book. Charles Webb, the 29-year-old Californian whose first novel, The Graduate, was largely overlooked and generally underrated before its matriculation into the phenomenally successful movie, is just such a case.
Webb's sophomore novel, Love, Roger, gives strong evidence...
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