A Card From Morocco

by Robert Shaw. Harcourt, Brace & World, $4.95. Mr. Shaw wrote The Man in the Glass Booth, and this is a playwright’s novel, operating entirely through conversation and brief scene-setting descriptions. The descriptions are brilliant. The conversation is between two middle-aged men, less has-beens than never-weres, sharing drinking bouts and neuroses in Spain. The tale is melancholy but funny, with a constant daft sparkle in the talk and a run of bizarre but onviruing episodes.