Springtime in Siena offers an exciting pair of faux memoirs-two period takes on American ways of growing up, sharply rendered stories that rush with verve and wit to opposite endings. Springtime in Siena follows a hungry young academic leading a semester-abroad group to Tuscany in 1974. Gary sleeps with students of both sexes while mulling the coming post-Watergate, post-Viet Nam era. Coldly modifying his own voracious appetite, he...