ALL NEW PEOPLE <i> by Anne Lamont (Bantam: $8.50).</i>

In Lamont’s fourth novel, a woman recalls her girlhood in an eccentric California family during the ‘60s. Some passages capture the narrator’s attitudes and feelings with refreshing verisimilitude. But too many of the characters seem interchangeable: The women are invariably overweight, with huge breasts, almost white blonde hair and identical attitudes; the men are basically ciphers who advance the story through some ill-planned action, then disappear until they’re needed for further masculine follies ex machina.