This "marvelously funny book" exposes its narrator, the perverse and charming Hartspring--father, voyeur, teacher, war hero. The story--set in a fictional Yale--focuses on the wild feast from his office window of two young women in their dormitory girding their loins preparatory to a full frontal assault upon the World of Men. In a panorama of flashback, the chief figures in Hartspring's past emerge: mad Mag Durham from Alabama; Willy Gross, who engineers...