Books
August, 1959
The Tents of Wickedness (Little, Brown, $3.75) is the fourth novel by Peter De Vries, who claims to be a "serious novelist writing comic novels." Perhaps it is this lofty image of himself that is responsible for the fact that his novels grow progressively unfunnier. Tents is populated by characters out of his second novel, Comfort Me with Apples (Playboy After Hours, July 1956) but the humor has become hydroponic, its wan roots not in the rich loam of human experience but in the chemic...
