Trio: Portrait Int

Saroyan here limns the characters and relationships of three women who married world-famous artists much older than themselves. The four principal husbandsWilliam Saroyan, Walter Matthau, Leopold Stokowski and Charlie Chaplinare also sharply drawn. PW observed that Saroyan is, however, ""most concerned with his mother Carol's character and her obsessively painful relationship with the author's father, William Saroyan.'' (August)