Article: A PEEK THROUGH THE WINDOW OF LIFE.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

Byline: LYNN DEAN HUNTER

HERB'S PAJAMAS

ABIGAIL THOMAS

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 199 pp. $17.95.

At night, when he can't sleep, Walter looks out his window at the building across the street. On the fourth floor, third window from the left, a light is always on.

Edith, who lives on the seventh floor of that building is trying to adjust to the death of her mother. ``Edith, get ahold of yourself,'' she says.

These two characters, central to Abigail Thomas' short-story collection, Herb's Pajamas, have lived across the street from each other on New York's Upper West Side for 20 years. They have never met, and don't ...

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