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This becalmed, almost Chekhovian household is about to be consumed in a flash fire of passion. A young villager is hired to be both gardener and chauffeur. Oliver (Tom Waites) is a muscular lout and nothing to look at, but one lazy, empty afternoon, Molly seduces him.
Soon she makes Oliver a live-in member of the household. When the puritanical Eve catches wise, she gives notice. But Molly wins Eve back by pleading that she desperately needs her. The need to be needed is an unbroken strand that runs through the play.
The book's protagonist, Gene Barret, (misspelled relation of Oliver?) is an ambulatory cliche. Forced to endure a college education at the insistence of his father, Gene floats from one campus to another, accumulating credits, and a paucity of genuine academic knowledge. His list of truncated enrollments growing, he dauntlessly...
FICTION 1 -Falconer, Cheever (2 last week) 2-Oliver's Story, Segal (V
1 - Oliver 's Story, Segal (1 last week)