ISLAND IN THE SUN (538 pp.)Alec Waugh Farrar, Strous & Cudahy ($3.95).
"I want a tube of toothpaste."
"Certainly. What kind?"
"Do you have Eucryl?"
"The large size or the small?"
"What is the difference in price?"
"The large size is thirty-six cents, the small size twenty-four."
"Then the large size is the better bargain."
"Yes, it's the better bargain."
"I'll have the large size."
Novelist Alec Waugh, Evelyn's elder brother, can squeeze out this sort of dialogue as fluently as any large-sized tube. To his gift of the gab, Alec adds a bird's-eye view of life: his new novel is fairly crammed to the horizons with ever-speaking likenesses. The book...
