A VERY SMALL REMNANT (232 pp.)Michael StraightKnopf ($4).
Michael Straight. 46, has always had more cash, conscience and energy than he knew quite what to do with. Scion of one of America's wealthiest families (his mother was Harry Payne Whitney's sister), he has for years managed the family fortune with one hand and with the other espoused an assortment of causes, mostly forlorn. For 13 years he was editor, publisher and underwriter of the New Republic Magazine. In 1956 he resigned and turned to fiction.
In A Very Small Remnant, as in his first novel,...
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