THE LADY FROM BOSTON by Tom McHale Doubleday; 304 pages; $8.95
The hero of Author Tom McHale's fifth novel is totally without redeeming social value. Dwight David Aldrich hails (of course) from Abilene, Kans.; not yet 30, he seems to have enraged everyone he has ever met. His ex-wife's prominent Boston lawyer father pays Aldrich $500 a month alimony to keep his distanceĀon a 500-acre retreat in Vermont. There, someone systematically blows up and burns down the "tumbledown Disney land" of a condominium that the remittance man has cynically thrown together on the site. An acquaintance Aldrich meets at a...
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