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...development. When Anthony and Mary come from their summer vacation they find a garish stucco house newly-erected on the lot next to theirs and the unfolding of Anthonys' late for its occupants begins with a noisy house-warming when Anthony summons the police to keep them quiet. The splondid psychological outlining of Anthony's defiant but helpless rage is contained in a piece of writing that makes the whole book worth buying. He grows more and more unbalanced in his broodings, while his wife in her "thin vagnoly quavoring voice" keeps complaining...
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