cover image Cigarettes

Cigarettes

Harry Mathews. Collier Books, $8.95 (292pp) ISBN 978-0-02-013971-3

The author examines the patterning of his characters' lives as they form and reform themselves into conspiratorial pairs, in this novel of four couples and their assorted offspring. ``Mathews manages to tinge familiar objects and places, such as New York, with a delectable strangeness,'' stated PW . (October)