A SEA CHANGE (372 pp.)—Nigel Dennis—Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). This novel was published in England last June as Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, a title that the U.S. publishers discarded as ...

“Rich Boy” By Sharon Pomerantz 528 pages $24.99 An inheritance can be a mixed blessing. ... Like Roth’s characters, Pomerantz’s Vishniaks are mid-century American Jews, ...

Nurtured by his love of these cartoon books, the boy would one day become an impresario who helped launch an American art form. The boy, of course, was William Randolph Hearst.