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Lark City . . . a strange assortment of people in a vast
apartment complex, each in his own way struggling to remain
involved and useful in the face of enforced retirement. Arthur
Crane, trapped with a sexless wife and craving affection.
Stephanie Upshaw, a retired schoolteacher who has never known
a man's caress. Alan Markel, who never should have stopped
being a doctor. The naval hero who refights his war adventures
in taverns.
"They're all in the same boat," Vincent Gallo says to Sam Kendall,
Lark City's harassed manager, " and you'd think they would try to
make this last voyage together a pleasant one." Sam's job is to
see that they do, to the best of his ability, and his daughter Lee
is there to help him. But along with Lee Kendall and her friends
are the less predictable young people of her bewildering
generationùthe hippies and beatniks and flower children, and
above all the rioters who bring this stirring novel to a
frightening climax and provide the assorted residents of Lark
with an opportunity to see themselves as they really are.
Larks Will Sing, though filled with action and surprises, is perhaps
Hugh Cave's most provocative novel to date. Enforced retirement
in today's swift world is creating a whole host of new problems.
Mr. Cave explores some of them and comes up with startling
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