BooksA Brand New LifeBy Phoebe Lou AdamsJuly 1968 Issue ShareSave by James T. Farrell. Doubleday, $5.95. Mr. Farrell’s heroine is a young divorcee, up to no good in Chicago in 1928. Unhappily, one has the impression that the novel should have been written in 1928, when it would have been daring realism.