Okay, now Polly is getting suspicious of Bosk who is suspicious of Polly. Nice noir touches. Polly discovers from her lawyer that Irving (the crooked insurance broker) is aware that she pocketed a bundle from the hospital's botched delivery of her child, Joy. Polly thinks--why hasn't Irving come after me--and then realizes that maybe Bosk is Irving's agent. (She's right, of course.) Irving notices that although she said she was just going to Dover, she has put over 200 miles on his truck. Where was she? Is she playng him for a fool. Nice, old-fashioned plot.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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