The love-war continues for Alison Lurie but in [Only Children] she has introduced a referee…. For the title has a double meaning: the actual children in the story are "only children" in the sense of being without siblings; but their parents are "only children" in that they are just immature….
It's all a question of sexual relations and the nature of love. Only Children is an easily read, fast moving, summer weekend sort of novel; yet the underlying "message" is tough….
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