335 pp. A novel by Walter Abish, author of two previous novels, three collections of stories, and a book of poems. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a MacArthur fellow. While Mexican literary critic Alejandro longs for Mercedes, his estranged and unfaithful wife, Bonnie, the daughter of Mercedes' lover, witnesses a murder, and Preston, an American industrialist, and his wife deal with an unscrupulous art dealer.
