cover image Trio: Portrait Int

Trio: Portrait Int

Aram Saroyan. Penguin Books, $4.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-14-008884-7

Saroyan here limns the characters and relationships of three women who married world-famous artists much older than themselves. The four principal husbandsWilliam Saroyan, Walter Matthau, Leopold Stokowski and Charlie Chaplinare also sharply drawn. PW observed that Saroyan is, however, ""most concerned with his mother Carol's character and her obsessively painful relationship with the author's father, William Saroyan.'' (August)