. "Evidently free of tormenting scruples about such matters as point of view and form, they are full of high spirits and comic inventiveness, what E. M. Forster calls ???bounce.??? In each of them the central character, a sophisticated upper-middle-class Eastern type, takes the tour of a particular scene???a small college campus in Love and Friendship (1962), Los Angeles in The Nowhere City (1965), a" . . . .