cover image In the City

In the City

Joan Silber. Penguin Books, $6.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-14-009742-9

Innocent and naive, Pauline Samuel is determined to live the bohemian life in Greenwich Village in the 1920s but slowly becomes bitter and aimless. PW noted that this ""deceptively simple narrative achieves real depth and resonance.'' (March)