cover image Flipping for It

Flipping for It

Daniel Asa Rose. St. Martin's Press, $7.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-312-02211-2

Rose here tells the sad and hilarious tale of Thomas, a Rhode Island zoologist whose wife leaves him. In the month this novel covers, Thomas learns that his heart can break and keep on beating. ``It's a funny lesson,'' commented PW , ``an acute kind of humor never far from tears.'' (October)