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...SCHORER'S DESCRIPTIONS are just a little outdated, as is his style, refined but worn-out like the typical New Yorker story of the past two decades...
While lacking Schorer's degree of sophistication, even soap operas long ago picked up the theme of nonexistent communication between husband and wife, which leads them to seek compensation in adultery, to reconstruct the past in nostalgic memories...
Only when one of Schorer's characters desperately tries to escape his all too neatly molded life in an original way does his story become interesting. In "Don't Take Me for Granted," Gilbert Miles finds a release from his dull, unaccomplished life in a wild imitation of solitary madness...
Such an ironic twist breathes fresh air into a few of the stories, especially when Schorer uses his imagery not to undercut his heroes with satire but to heighten the intensity of their momentary fulfillment...
...this turn-about is, typed characters stubbornly ward off any threat of intense involvement in most stories. Only the appearance of the author himself on the scene saves the reader from boredom. The unusual method of interspersing autobiographical pieces between short stories unifies the book with a chronological thread. Schorer's own life story is so much more original than that of his characters that it seems to undercut the complacent atmosphere of the short stories more effectively than the author's satire...