WHEN MY GIRL COMES HOME (240 pp.)V. S. PrifchetfKnopf ($4).
"It was the face of someone to whom nothing had happened; or, perhaps, so much had happened to her that each event wiped out what had happened before. I was disturbed by something in herthe lack of history, I think." It is the lack of historysuffered by the heroine of this book's title storythat must disturb any reader of Critic-Novelist V. S. Pritchett's haunting tales. The characters who move through these pages have arrived from places the reader has never visited and by routes...
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