LOST SUMMER, by Christopher Davis (320 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), introduces Toni Newman, who is 18, pretty, decent, and has been brought up in solid comfort by intelligent, loving parents. Yet she shouts at her shocked mother: "I'd go to bed with anybody who loved me or gave me a chance to love him. Anybody at all.''
What happened to make Toni feel that way? On a pleasant evening several weeks back, she had driven out to a nightclub with her dull but good-looking young man. Stan Walters, as described by his teen-age brother, is "the guy who goes through life and...
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