![]() ![]() Quest for a Recipeīut then Miss Whedon, whose first novel was the talented ''Girl of the Golden West,'' pulls a surprising switch. And this impression is only strengthened when, in the chapters that follow, Frank forces Jan to serve Saturday night dinner to two football tackles and a running back, who spend the evening telling offensive stories about women, and then abandons her first thing Sunday morning to have breakfast at the Palm Court with a pole vaulter. He was telling me how much he liked me, for myself, just as I was, in one ear, while Frank was telling me how much he liked himself, in my other ear.''īreezy, witty cliche, to be sure, but nevertheless another story about a housewife reduced to childishness by her husband's fixation on the world of professional sports. ![]() ![]() It may look as if we've wandered back into the land of cliche when, at the start of Julia Whedon's amusing new novel, ''A Good Sport,'' we find Jan Derby on the phone with her sportscaster husband, Frank, while ''channel switching with my free hand.'' ''Mister Rogers was painting a porch swing and playing a Brahms trio on an old Gramophone. ![]()
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