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THE DESERT by Allen Wheelis. 163 pages. Basic Books. $5.95.
Like the platypus, a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal, this book should not work but does. It is part love story, part lecture in existential psychoanalysis, and part rumination on the frayed bootstraps of mankind. Altogether, Allen Wheelis' novel does far more than merely survive on its own terms in...
Max Archer, the narrator-hero of the story section, is-like Wheelis himself -a San Francisco psychoanalyst. Fortyish and divorced, Archer regularly sees his patients, consults with his colleagues, plays a little chess and a lot of women. He is a man of few illusions who expects little and usually...
By virtue of his position as narrator, Archer is the character of greatest dimension. Craig and Ariana are more like vivified case histories. Taken together, they become an eternal threesome whose antecedents can be found in myths about princes salvaging damsels from evil spellbinders. In Wheelis' tale, though, the...
The controversy over the BRA's plan to replace private homes in North Harvard with high-rise, high-rent apartments, attracted state and national attention this summer when the 11, including two Harvard graduates, Steven B. Goldin '64 and James B. Wheelis '64, were arrested in two separate incidents.