MY FATHER SITS IN THE DARK (521 pp.) Jerome WeidmanRandom House ($5.95).
Jerome Weidman comes close to being a really good short story writer; his ear is accurate, and he presents the nubs of his stories, neatly wrapped, for his readers to carry away. The trouble is that while there is always something in the packages, there is never much. One smiles wryly at a character's small defeat (or more rarely, small victory) and then passes on untroubled to another story equally expert and forgettable.
As he did in his novels (I Can Get It For You Wholesale, The Enemy Camp), Weidman writes...
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