cover image Sailing

Sailing

Susan Kenney. Penguin Books, $8.95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-14-009333-9

``One need not have read In Another Country , Kenney's previous novel about the Boyd family, to fully appreciate this eloquent, moving sequel, but readers who were waiting for this work will not be disappointed,'' wrote PW , referring to ``passages of lyric beauty'' that limn terminal illness and marital tensions, and make sailing a metaphor for life. (Apr.)