SONS OF THE FATHERS by Martin Kramer, Macmillan, NY, 1959, 342 pp. $4.50.

The homosexuality in this exciting novel is so slowly introduced that one assumes it will be incidental. It certainly isn't. The very ending is a "Dear John" letter announcing the marriage (with fidelity) of two male U.S. Army officers. The quiet, unflamboyant telling of the vice squad at the gay bar in Laguna is the most powerful indictment against entrapment I've read. And the scene of two heterosexuals ranting against homosexuals to two friends who are really homosexual themselves is a perfect portrayal of an ironic situation we have all been through.

This novel is a portrayal of six young men who meet at the University of California, their families, lovers, and their fate. Mr. Kramer is not scared of minorities nor of a huge and diverse cast. There are, for

example, George, the millionaire's son turned communist, and Johnny, the negro from the rockbottom-poor family, and Virgil, the transplanted English boy and his weird embroilment with the refugee Jew. And the homosexuals are the most successful portraits; they have that absolute ring of truth.

Mr. Kramer is intensely interested in people. There is not one passage wasted on mood, landscape, or style for style's sake. Every word, every conversation, is utilized to show one person's relation to another person, or to his family, or to some other aspect of society. In fact, I would like to call Mr. Kramer a sociological writer. He has a genius for creating flesh-and-blood characters, but he never loses sight of society. Always around each individual there is society. This, for me, made it one of those rare bigger-than-life works of art and the best American novel I have read in years. A. E. Smith.

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