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Title: The Cost of Living by Ruth Doan MacDougall ISBN: 0-399-10172-1 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 1971 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $5.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: A dreary barren drag.
Comment: The players in this little novel are so inwardly turned, and tentative, that you want to shake them. It sounds like the main characters have traveled and done interesting things but these events are so lightly touched upon that you get the barest taste. The author shows herself capable of realistic conversation, situations and settings but most often leaves not only the reader as an outsider but the characters as observers of their own lives also. The cover blurb proclaims "Shattering . . . three times as moving as the end of 'Love Story'." Now, I know the author likely did NOT write that blurb, but the printers have really asked for it; 'moving'? no; numbing, sad, and tragic. Was there a moral we were supposed to get about drinking and driving? OK. I got it. But it begs the question; 'Why?' The punchline/conclusion had no link to the entire story line. The reactions of the players were skewed to provide shock to the reader at the expense of cohesion.