W. M. Spackman

It took 30 or so pages to really click for me, but there's real joy in Spackman's language. It's this odd, classical Ivy League vernacular, but not in some putting on airs manner. It seems an honest language. There's a way these sentences seem to roll out almost plainly in his tongue, wild as they are.

To sum up the plot of An Armful of Warm Girl, it is about a man who, after being divorced by his wife, flees to New York City. There he bounces from place to place looking for a substitute for his wife. Upon his arrival to New York he is instantly attracted to just about every young girl in a skirt. After establishing a relationship with one such woman he is pointedly pursued by yet another woman. In the end he has to decide between the two.

Great dialog, style