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It's the story, divided against itself. Loftis and his younger ' daug Peyton, have a bond of thy that grows with the years and infuriates Milton's wife, Helen. In their Tidewater Virginia town P Warwick (Newport New the conflict between Milton and Helen cannot remain led. After all, Milton. is the scion of an old family so genteel that Milton's father, once wealthy, had no sense of practicality and ran through his fortune. The social position that might help Milton to success actually is a burden. It makes him conspicuous. As a lawyer with a drab, unprofitable practice, he is partly dependent on his wife's

inheritance to live in gentlemanly style. That obligation, plus chronie and consuming boredom, seems to be a major factor in his alcoholism. Though he's no lost-week-end-ing Don Birnam, Milton puts away plenty from morning to night and sometimes later. His

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efuddlement naturally grows increasingly distasteful to Helen, who certainly can’t be blamed for taking a dim view of Milton vs, _ drink, as she takes an even dimmer view of his Freudian rapport with Peyton. A mentally retarded older daughter, Maudie, further complicates the picture.

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Mr. A rings nearly 8} the Michael Gorham, one of a new changes .on e psycho-analytic i ‘2 f : ! | A vi n . carillon. This—fact-may endear] Ne editorial supervision of Helen Hoke. (Garden City, $1.25) him to some readers and alienate mentaj wanderings of a psyhim from others. chotic? And how valid is a psyA long climactic passage in chotic as a character in a novel? which Peyton, now also an al- The very term ‘character’ im-

coholic as. well as psychotic, re- plies some degree of freedom of views the stream of circumstance choice. If Peyton is mentally ill, leading to her eventual ghastly she's to be pitied, like the poor suicide, should delight the Freud-! spastic sufferer who inadvertently ians. It may distress the uniniti- yanks himself tn front of a truck. ated, like the historjc soliloquy of But she *does not command the James Joyce's Mollie Bloom, and admiration we might accord a not simply because it also: is fully resnonsible person. candid to the nth degree. Much the game goes for Milton, There's a serious question of Whom I. think. Mr. Styron would art ‘and taste involved. How far like us to regard sympathetically. Mr. Styron often seems to be trying to make Milton sound like a gifted and rare personality, but the imputed wit and imagination do little to banish a reader's impression that Milton, with his drinking and his rather sordid affair with Dolly, simply is a heel.

” n o MR. STYRON'S MANNER transcends his matter. He has immense talent for making things vivid. He arranges each scene as carefully as a painter working out composition on a canvas. Each vignette of life in Port Warwick or New York fis clearly visualized, and Mr. Styron never misses a chance to make background contribute -to his emotional effect. The power of his writing is such as to obscure for quite a time the comimonplaceness of his characters. Early in the novel, you get a feeling you're going to be greatly impressed by the charlacters. Thal feeling fades as you go on, but you retain respect for (Mr. Styron's ability to make iscenes clear and compelling. One rather astonishing feat he {has perfcrmed-—astonishing for a writer still in his 20s—is convey{ing a powerful impression of the boredom and futility of middle age. If you're sensitive to things of the sort, LIE DOWN IN 1 DARKNESS will prove powerfully | depressing.

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