Books: Sons of Amber

WANDERERS EASTWARD, WANDERERS WEST by Kathleen Winsor. 947 pages. Random House. $7.95.

This is Kathleen Winsor's first major production since Forever Amber, and it is crowded with oversexed protagonists whose affairs would have put Amber to shame—or rather to virtue. It rides the trend to "authentic" westerns and is an authentic eastern as well. It has been grabbed up by two book clubs and by Hollywood. The funny | thing is, it's really not bad.

Although unnecessarily long and involved, Wanderers is a remarkable study of life in the ore camps of Montana and the mansions of Wall Street during the two anarchic...

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