ST. FARB'S DAY Morley Torgov Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990. 270pp, cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-88619-325-7 Distributed by Key Porter Books. CIP Adult Reviewed by Melanie Fogel. Volume 19 Number 2 1991 March Farb is a lawyer with the kind of clients who make you want to go into proctology. His credo is "A lawyer's first duty is to get himself off the hook." But on this Friday in November, events conspire to create nothing but hooks. If the man is a saint, it's because he knows that the ethical route is the safest. His dealings with a group of people who trust him completely and are completely without ethics create the dilemma that underlies this novel. The characters are wonderfully funny and all too reminiscent of people you've met once too often. But the emotions (mainly greed, spite and ambition) that drive them are very adult, which will put St. Farb's Day over the heads of most young people. The language, too, is probably too strong for most school libraries. Melanie Fogel, Ottawa, Ont.