Changing the Past

Copy editor Walter Hunsicker, offered an opportunity to alter his past, experiments with several personas in search of a better life. ``Berger writes so amusingly . . . that for quite a while he convinces the reader to overlook the implausibility of his thesis--surprising to find in so jaundiced a story--that it's best to take your lumps, eschew the glamorous and be just folks,'' said PW. (Mar.)