In the third season ot his life, " wearing
mortality as he might a smile with a cheek
numbed by Novocaine," Matthew
Rogerson begins his forty-seventh sum-
mer. Husband and fathcr of old-fash-
ioned morality, humanities professor ol
dubious distinction, a beleaguered soul
with a painful prostatc condition, he sur-
veys the broad scene of his life and finds
it--wanting.
Rogerson s wife Marge has gone hack
to school and acquired a threateningly
independent mien; now she wants to
spend the summer on a lake in Wiscon-
sin, and Rogerson doesn t want to go. His
urologist, Heep, tells him he ought to be
circumcised, so Rogerson decides to
spend the summer at home, to nurse his
altered manhood.
Enter Sylvia Wood, the daring young
professor on the flvin~ ten-speed, who ll
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