Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley. Dalkey Archive Press, $15.95 (432pp) ISBN 978-1-56478-131-4
Huxley's satire of 1920s intellectual life takes formal inspiration from classical music. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 10/02/1996
Genre: Fiction
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