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...KIND OF LOVING, by Stan Barstow (309 pp.; Doubleday: $3.95), is the work of a Yorkshire coal miner's son who seems to think that it is still possible to write a novel about ordinary people who do what they have to do. Nowadays, the idea seems almost revolutionary; but Novelist Barstow makes it stick...
This may be one of the oldest marriage stories in the world. Then why read it? Because Author Barstow often makes the human situation quiver on the page. Vic tells the story in the first person-and in rich, casual slang-with a kind of boyish innocence that is no mere storytelling contrivance. Everything from inexperienced sex to the showdown with mother-in-law has the edge of simple truth on it. In the end, the fact that Vic's story has been played out so often before wherever boy met girl does no damage; on the contrary...
JERRY A. ANTHONY U.S.M.C. Barstow, Calif...
...highway superintendent, rolled over and buried dozens of trucks, left two blocks of fashionable Pacific Palisades homes perilously close to the edge. The Mojave Desert's Mojave River, known as "UpsideDown River" because all but a trickle of its flow is underground, rose to near-flood dimensions near Barstow...
RILEY CRABB Barstow, Calif...