Between Two Chairs and into Phonyland

"novel." It is filler, padding, waste paper.nWhat is it about.'' Nothing. Or perhapsnit's about certain irrelevant,ndesultory episodes in a country whichnwe may call Phony land.nIn Russia many writers draw theirnpropaganda novels not from life, butnfrom previous propaganda novels. Notnunsimilarly, Irwin Shaw draws thesen340 pages from mass . . .