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TIME Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett interviewed all four of the younger Reagans and found them engagingly different from what the gossip suggested. His report...
...hero of The Second Coming, Percy's fifth novel, is emphatically both. Will Barrett is a middle-aged version of the younger character who starred in The Last Gentleman. He has inherited a fortune ("About 50 or 60 million," he guesses) from his late wife Marion. Retired early from his Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem...
...until he receives a sign. What he gets instead is a toothache, which drives him out of hiding and into the care of Allison, a young schizophrenic who has escaped from a sanitarium and is living in a greenhouse right beneath the cave. Emerging from his vigil, Will Barrett goes through the glass roof and literally falls in love...
Police believe that Jacobson drove away in a blue 1980 Dodge Aspen rented by his son's girlfriend. They believe that he took with him another model, Audrey Barrett, 22, who has also disappeared. One theory holds that the couple drove to either Philadelphia or Washington and caught a commercial flight out of the country, heading perhaps for Central America or the Caribbean. But no one really knows...
Unlike Oliver and Jenny Barrett, who were nearly perfect, Segal has wilted under Mammon's gaze and added Oliver's Story to the screenplay-novel genre. And now comes Man, Woman and Child, the kind of novel a writer produces only thrice in a lifetime, a literary tortilla, a hardcover hors d'oeuvre...