Books: Cold Comforts

EVIDENCE OF LOVE by SHIRLEY ANN GRAU 240 pages. Knopf. $7.95.

Shirley Ann Grau is now 47 years, five novels and two short-story collections old. She is, by any reasonable standard, a successful writer. Critics generally admire her work. The Keepers of the House won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Her sales chart is not dramatically craggy, but rises to a respectable plateau of long-term gains. Moreover, Grau has managed her career while raising four children as the wife of a philosophy professor in suburban New Orleans.

Such roots and obligations appear to have given...

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