Books: Son of P.P. Rides Again

THE TIGHT WHITE COLLAR (288 pp.)—Grace Metalious — Julian Messner ($3.95).

Novelist Metalious' latest effort, again designed to prove that New England is a place where people can get into trouble with their skis off, bears the same relation to her first two books that a B-girl does to a prostitute: its implied promise is sex in return for money, but what it delivers is merely a phony hotel room key and a whiff of perfume. A certain amount of houghmagandy does occur ("His touch on her body was the lightest she could ever imagine and it awakened every single nerve ....

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