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Linked by the mysterious binding power of nomenclature, Paul Hammer and Eliot Nailles are nonetheless violently opposite. Nailles, a chemist dedicated to the elimination of bad breath, is strictly monogamous and, apparently, an exemplary father to his teenage son Tony. Hammer is the illegitimate son of a socialist kleptomaniac, and certainly not the scrubbed and decent citizen he seems… When the two men are viewed together as halved of the overburdened American psyche, John Cheever’s satirical etching of small-town American life begins to take on a lethal new dimension.