From the authorSheldon Lord began his career with CARLA, published by Harry Shortens Midwood Books in 1958. Just about a year later he wrote CAMPUS TRAMP for William Hamlings Nightstand Books, for whom hed morphed into Andrew Shaw. And young Mr. Lords first book for yet a third publisher, Beacon, was APRIL NORTH. Each publisher wanted more from the guy. Beacons request for a second book was remarkably specific. They had a title in mindCOMMUNITY OF WOMENand a theme. Their notion was that no end of interesting and attractive couples lived in the suburbs, and five mornings a week virtually all of the husbands rode into Manhattan on the train, while their wives remained to do presumably wifely things at home. So during daytime hours, Monday through Friday, all of these wives constituted aCommunity of Women. Which would make it a hotbed of, um, hot stuff.Duh. Well, it was an okay premise. I remember the occasion when it was delivered to me. I was in Buffalo, my ancestral home, on a brief visit. My agent called and recounted what Beacon had asked for. (That agent believed in keeping writers and publishers far apart. I did meet Harry Shorten once, at Harrys insistence, but never had any direct contact with anyone at Nightstand or Beacon.) They need this as soon as possible, he added. I fell for this, of course. I always did. About a year earlier I was living on West 69th Street when the same agent told me that Monarch Books had an unfinished novel, the first chapters and outline...

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