Strands of Relationship
WEITZMAN, JUDY
Strands of Relationship The Cobweb. By William Gibson. Knopf. 369 pp. $3.95. Reviewed by Judy Weitzman The Cobweb is as carefully constructed as a first-rate mystery novel. The fascination of...
...and Meg Rinehart, the psychotherapist waiting to be drawn out of a dead past, provides a warm note...
...McIver had arrived to run it...
...The Castle House Clinic for Nervous Disorders had run quietly for years, ever since Dr...
...The Cobweb is a powerful book without being a crusade...
...McIver's wife Karen and Vicky Inch, fixture of the clinic's book-keeping department, it turned out to be much more complicated...
...While some of the people involved are more sympathetic than others, no one remains a villain throughout...
...Steve Holt, the artist patient who may have to pay for everyone else's confusion and selfishness, is brilliantly portrayed...
...Its logical structure and compelling characterizations create an overwhelming sense of the interdependence of all people...
...The fascination of this story is that the cobweb has no spider, only the sticky, immobilizing strands of personal relationships...
...Moral and all, the book makes excellent reading and deserves every bit of success it gets...
...The staff of the clinic is just as vulnerable to the actions of others as are the patients...
...It all began with drapes for the living room...
...The question of whether the drapes should be made cooperatively by the patients or should be donated by a generous trustee seemed a simple matter of policy, but, variously aided and obstructed by Dr...
Vol. 37 • March 1954 • No. 10
