Group Therapy

Shelby Hearon. Warner Books, $4.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-446-36063-0

Lutie Sayre, a 32-year-old Texas-raised sociology teacher, moves to New York, where she joins group therapy to discover what other people think of her. ``A charming comedy of manners and morals--funny, tender and wholly appealing,'' praised PW. (Aug.)

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