Books: Editors' Choice: Aug. 10, 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: 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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