Days Between Stations

Steve Erickson. Vintage Books USA, $6.95 (253pp) ISBN 978-0-394-74685-2

Plagued by amnesia, Michel Sarasan has an affair with a married woman, then goes to Paris to try to jog his memory. PW commented: ""A plot rampant with ambiguities and bizarre harbingers of doomsday in a futuristic world and the author's surrealistic style make this first novel impenetrable.'' (September)

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