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...MARMOT DRIVE (273 pp.)-John Mersey-Knopf...
...best and worst in people have been ships, planes, hotels, tropic outposts, small combat units, African safaris. It remained for Novelist John (A Bell for Adano, The Wall) Hersey to put his characters to the test in a modern-day woodchuck roundup. None of the people in The Marmot Drive like each other very much to begin with. When Hester comes up from New York for a weekend at the out-of-the-way small town of Tunxis, Conn., it is to meet the family of Eben, a moody young fellow she has taken up with in the big city...
Matthew ignores her advances, but in their absence the marmot drive has begun to go badly. At roundup's end, only 37 animals have been corralled instead of the hundreds the selectman promised. Besides, someone has spied him and Hester together, and he is accused of attempted rape...
...water to see weary salmon returning to their spawning beds. A young beaver goes off on his own, sets up housekeeping with a widow and her baby beaver and builds a dam for the family. A skulking coyote preys on the well-camouflaged heron and bittern and the nimble marmot and badger...
They find New England particularly attractive because the area is mostly under cultivation, and there is nothing a marmot likes better than grade A garden vegetables. A definite propensity for red clever and celery has created a certain degree of bad feeling between woodchucks and Now England farmers...