Ask Me Tomorrow

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JAMES GOULD COZZENS’S country doctor and his city priest are two of the really memorable fictional characters of the last ten years. With them in mind it is something of a wrench to adjust oneself to Francis Ellery, the hero of Ask Me Tomorrow, and to follow him through the super-golden resorts of Europe, meeting the rather less than golden people who frequent them. But why insist on keeping them in mind? Mr. Cozzens did a very fine book set on the wel tering, panicked decks of the Vestris — a long cry from the Connecticut hills, too. Reviewers seem to have complained that they did not like the hero of this latest Cozzens book without realizing how little affection Mr. Cozzens himself bears for him. Ellery is the guinea pig for the author’s delicate, malicious, cynical satire. He is a brittle and futile young man, just as his creator intended him to be. And his employer, Mrs. Cunningham, could exist only on the Riviera or the ski trails of Switzerland. Moving through a readable story, they demonstrate another facet of Mr. Cozzens’s versatility.