In this dark suburban drama, Cheever concerns himself with the two
neighbors: Eliot Nailles, who loves his wife and son to distraction, and
Paul Hammer, who, according to Nailles, is a bastard named after a
common household tool. The pair soon become fatefully linked by the
mysterious binding power of their names.
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