Rainbow

KIRKUS REVIEW It's hard to guess how many times the strings of your heart will go zing but let's say right off that this is not Finch's intention. But still the saturation-competition is hard to overlook--particularly in the teeth of Gerold Frank's gaudiest, longest, mostest Judy. Finch is the first writer not to exploit her--he has made a serious attempt to understand that sad trajectory from nowhere to fame to failure and he has written about her with style and intelligence. Without retracing the facts (they're here--so is a good deal of animating personal history) Finch has evaluated her…