Books: His & Hers

THE LOVING COUPLE (269 pp.) —Virginia Rowans—Crowe// ($3.50).

The most remarkable thing about this book is that it can—indeed, must—be read from back to front as well as front to back. The book has two title pages, two opening chapters. In fact, to let the secret out, it is two stories. It tells the same incident—a marital quarrel—from the point of view of the husband as well as the wife.* Like "his" and "hers" towels in the bathroom, the notion is apt to be a little obvious and excessively cute. But if the reader...

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