Dust jacket is torn and stained but book is in good condition. Out of a vigorous and complex social group of a kind which he knows intimately, Lane Kauffmann has wrought a vital, richly textured novel. A fashionable wedding in New York draws together a variety of human beings. Through a brilliant use of irony, wit and dramatic action, Mr. Kauffmann displays the varied facades his people have erected to hide their real selves. And with a compassionate awareness of why and what they hide, he reveals their human weaknesses and strengths, their courage and their cowardice, their loves and hates and hopes.