Ratings14
Average rating3.1
It's readable, but in the end depresses me and leaves a bad taste, not only through the dismal ending but through the randomness of the ending, the arbitrary way in which it's done, and the feel in retrospect of the whole thing, of a kid pulling out toys and playing with them for a while before throwing them carelessly back in the box.
(Brief review written in 1986. I had bought the book but later got rid of it.)