Books: Harry & Leckie

ADRIFT IN SOHO (229 pp.]—Colin Wilson—Houqhfon Mifflin ($3.50).

THE GREATER IMPORTUNE (191 pp.)—Rayner Heppenstall—New Directions ($3.75).

Enter a new kind of English hero. He is young but not angry. He couldn't care less about whether there is room at the top. He is a vague and vagrant first person singular who drifts through a colloid of far-out characters that are his (and his plot's) only visible means of support. His mate is a dim, dumb, sensible girl, who pulls up his socks from time to time and does her best to dry his tears of...

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