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A Favourite of the Gods, by Sybille Bed ford. Grand opera without music, about the dynastic rich of 19th century Europe, by a novelist with a fine feel for the trials of being wellborn.
A Fortune in Dimes, by Mary Carter. A sardonic look at the beachbound aborigines of Pasadena, where in the author's view teen culture embraces all ages, and life is full, rich and empty.
On Revolution, by Hannah Arendt. In a shrewd study, Historian Arendt examines the long-held notion that revolutions cure social ills, concludes that most of them do more harm than good.
That Summer in Paris, by Morley Callaghan. How it was on the Left Bank in the 1920s by a Canadian writer who once knocked Hemingway down in a boxing match while Scott Fitzgerald kept time.
V., by Thomas Pynchon. A disordered but engaging first novel about alligators in a city sewer system, and a zany hero's search for the meaning of the letter V.
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