THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS (435 pp.)Rebecca WestViking ($5). A few years ago, "watching our marmalade cat drink a saucer of milk," Rebecca West thought how nice it would have been to have had hair the same color. For no particular reason, she went on to think: "I would like to have been a musician." A few seconds later, she had made a resolution. "I am going upstairs to write a short story about a musical family," she told her husband, retired Banker Henry Maxwell Andrews.
The short story grew into a 150,000-word novel which marks Author West's return to full-length fiction after two...
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