THAT NIGHT
by Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
184 pages; $14.95
"Enough, too much, has already been said about boredom in the suburbs, especially in the early '60s." So speaks the woman who looks back on her years of growing up in a comfortable Long Island fringe of New York City. What she remembers is excitement, that night long ago during her early adolescence when Rick Slater and a gang of his teenage friends drove up to a house across the street and tried to free Rick's girlfriend Sheryl from presumed imprisonment by the men in the neighborhood, including the...
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