Books: Editors' Choice: Aug. 24, 1981

FICTION: Dad, William Wharton Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin ∙On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sdbato ∙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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