This book was not what I was expecting. It starts with Nick and Helena, cousins who have been living together while their husbands were away at war, and describes how their lives change when one husband comes back and the other does not. What follows is an examination of their relationships told ...
I am beginning to wonder how I ever let Henry Luce seduce me into this god-awful job of reporting on all the squalid desperation that our government and the stock market and fate and even the weather is now inflicting on this country’s citizens. It can make a man sick to his very bones, the despa...