a i d Macabre. By Frederic Mullally. (Seeker and Warburg. I 5s.)
Long, sexy saga of Marianne. who sleeps with practically everybody before being bumped oft, at nineteen--who done it being discovered by newspaperman who sleeps with only one black girl, one white girl, and one white girl with one eye, and never achieves such philosophic musings between beddings as the nineteen-year-old nymph, to whom it was revealed in 'an awful flashing moment' at the Louvre that `suddenly . . . suddenly, I realised that we. are what we arc not because we are anything but because we are not something else.' / thought it was all very silly, but Raymond. the hairdresser, has put a notice about it in his Grafton Street shop-window saying, 'When I feel that the occa- sion demands it I am happy to pay tribute to a book of discernment about women.' So perhaps I'm no better a hook critic than I ant a hairdresser, and rather less discerning about women.
CHRISTOPHER PYM
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