Charm City

Charm CityA married man invites a beautiful stranger to his country home. He's thinking fantasy, but she's into nightmaresw ^ne evening a man called Frank Bower found himself at a recital in the audito­rium of a Baltimore museum. The recital was all Mahler, including The Song of the Earth with four singers. The part that moved him most was the faux-Chinese poetry that ended in the poet's rapture. Bower's enjoyment was shadowed by anxiety and some distant unre-membered grief. He was transfixed by...