Books: Editors' Choice: Sep. 7, 1981

FICTION:

Dad, William Wharton

Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin

On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sàbato

Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak

Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban

The Testament, Elie Wiesel

Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth

NONFICTION:

The Eisenhower Diaries, edited by Robert H. Ferrell

Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, Dumas Malone

The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot

Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman

Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg

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