An Orderly Life
by Pantheon, $5.95. The first-person narrator progresses from student liberal to stuffy businessman, neither condition at any time altering his basic character, which is simply cheerful promiscuity. Mr. Yglesias does scenes of blathering conversation and grimy drinking parties well, but he and his narrator seem to have no opinion of any of the action — except that in bed, which the narrator clearly approves. An objective reader may observe that there is rather too much of it, too repetitiously.