MOTHER OF HER COUNTRY

A clean joke about porn which doesn't run to more than one line but tells you something about publishing in general (Mr. Green was around in it for quite some time) and censorship and those not too fine distinctions to be made between words whether they appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary or Macbeth. Laura Conroy, a vestal virgin from the Midwest comes to New York to get a job in the book business which she does -- with a small press -- to the consternation of her mother who is the Carry Amelia Nation of something called the Americans for Clean Entertainment. There's a court case and a tacked on coda re a rediscovered journal as to where George Washington might really have slept but the story's not really much more than a stretcher to fill the space between brou and haha -- however cheerful and sensible its reprimand.