It is that last season of America s innocence, the summer
of 1963, in quiet suburban Baltimore. No one is looking
for signs of trouble, least of all George WiLlus-one of
eight grown children, all of whom are named after the
starting players of the 1927 Yankees. A forthright young
man, only George could have instructed three comely
prostitutes to "remove their drawers" in order to help
them move a particularly heavy dresser. And only George
could have believed that he knew what there was to
know about love and life and temptation beckoning over
the backyard fence.
At first, Eve, Kristen, and Dusty-the girls next dour-
seem happy to comply with George s hands-off policy.
Sure, they sunbathe nude, but only in the privacy of their
own backyard (where George can barely see them-even
with binoculars). And since they spend their off-hours
renovating their house, the girls can hardly be called
homewreckers-until Dusty asks George for help in fixing
her lawnmower. Good neighbor to a fault, George does
get her motor gcing (and in an unexpected way, she does
the same for him). Now, he has stopped thinking of himself as a happily married man, and started thinking
that ho is, we!l, simply married. As George s best friend
counsels, "These are the times that try men s souls .
A wiss and funny literary debut, The Girls Next Door
scrutinizes love and marriage, baseball, commitment and
sex and the feelings of loneliness that can take up resi-
dence in a young husband s heart.
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