cover image The Burning Women of Far Cry

The Burning Women of Far Cry

Rick DeMarinis. Penguin Books, $7.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-14-011117-0

In this coming-of-age tale, narrator Jack's sexy mother marries the proprietor of the dairy in Far Cry and immediately cuckolds him. According to PW, the book by the author of Under the Wheat ``never really attains the level of consistently zany humor it is searching for.'' (July)