Moving freely from past to present and place to place leap-frogging from digression to digression, "Take It or Leave It" recounts the hilarious and amourous adventures of Frenchy, a young man who survives the German occupation of France and moves to America where he travels crosscountry en route to Korea as a member of the 82nd Airbourne Division. The ultimate postmodern novel, "Take It or Leave" makes a shambles of traditional fiction and storytelling and does so with effrontery and laughter.