
In a trio of novellas, a screenwriter who volunteers to deliver lunches to people homebound with AIDS falls in love with one of his clients; Celia and Nathan struggle with love; and a writer agrees to write term papers in exchange for sexual favors.

Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In "Saturn Street," a disaffected L.A. screenwriter delivers lunches to homebound AIDS patients, only to find himself falling in love with one of them. In "The Wooden Anniversary,"...

