Books: Writer's Luck

MY PLACE IN THS BAZAAR (233 pp.) —Alec Waugh— Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.95).

Author Alec Waugh, 62, has had a literary career more frustrating than most. He wrote his first novel at 17, but when it appeared to glowing reviews, young Alec was a British lieutenant busy dodging enemy shells in France. By the time he got home to London, via a German prison camp, the novel was virtually forgotten. Back in civvies, Alec Waugh soon found himself laboring manfully in the shadow of his more gifted and glamorous younger brother, Evelyn, now 57, who vaulted quickly to fame with a...

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