Books: Editors' Choice: Aug. 3, 1981

FICTION: Dad, William Wharton

Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark

Helprin ∙ Outside Over There,

Maurice Sendak ∙ Riddley Walker,

Russell Hoban ∙ The Testament, Elie

Wiesel ∙The White Hotel, D.M.

Thomas ∙ Zuckerman Unbound,

Philip Roth

NONFICTION: Ernest Hemingway:

Selected Letters, 1917-1961 , edited

by Carlos Baker ∙ Jefferson and His

Time: The Sage of Monticello,

Dumas Malone ∙ The Lord God

Made Them All, James Herriot

Mornings on Horseback, David

McCullough ∙ Moving Pictures,

Budd Schulberg ∙ Prisoner Without

a Name, Cell Without a Number,

Jacobo Timerman ∙ Within the

Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg

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