NEIGHBORS by Thomas Berger; Delacorte; 275 pages; $9.95
The arrival of new neighbors is likely to brush even the most stable of home owners with a tinge of paranoia. Property values are at stake, after all, not to mention the territorial imperative. Will the newcomers possess large marauding dogs or, worse, teen-age children? Will they fill up their front yard with rusting automobiles, set up a permanent garage sale in their driveway, sell cosmetics or encyclopedias door to door, deal hard drugs, paint their house pink, fire pistols randomly at passing cars and pedestrians . . . ?...
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