THE LAST OF THE GOLDEN GIRLS Susan Swan Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989. 320pp, cloth, $24.95 ISBN 0-88619-223-4. CIP Adult Reviewed by Gerri Young. Volume 18 Number 1 1990 January Jude, Bobby and Shelly are three teenage girls who spend summers to­gether in Ontario's exclusive cottage country in the 1950s. They are highly competitive and pursue boys while growing in sexual awareness. As adults, in the second half of the book, they are again at the beach and are all involved with affairs and drugs. Their competitiveness now has more serious results as the story descends into a nightmare of betrayals, death and an approaching annihilation. The publisher presents the book as "witty, erotic and often hilarious." I found no wit or humour, and little erotica, but a great deal of grating, unpleasant graphic sex. If this is what a reader wants, the book will suit. Maybe this is the audience aimed at by the author. Or perhaps the author meant the novel as a warning about the life­styles of the rich and famous. This is not clear, though. I would not recommend this to anyone. Gerri Young, Ft. Nelson, B.C.