A Fine Romance

Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of their inevitable sexual prisons, part of their middle age. To be able to say consistently interesting things about these embroilmentsclass, sex, ageis a triumph for a novelist. Cynthia Propper Seton has pulled off just such a triumph. Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times