Books: Editor’s Choice: Apr. 20, 1981

FICTION: Creation, Gore Vidal ∙Gorky

Park, Martin Cruz Smith

Love and Freindship, Jane Austen

Other People’s Worlds, William

Trevor ∙Tar Baby, Toni Morrison

What We Talk About When We

Talk About Love, RaymondCarver

The White Hotel, DM. Thomas

NONFICTION: Ernest Hemingway:

Selected Letters, 1917-1961, edited by

Carlos Baker ∙ Faces in My Time,

Anthony Powell ∙The Hour of Our

Death, Philippe Ariès ∙Lucy: The

Beginnings of Humankind, Donald

C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey

Maria Callas, Arianna

Stassinopoulos ∙Paper Money,

Adam Smith ∙The Terrible Secret,

Walter Laqueur

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Covenant, Michener (1 last week)

2. Brain, Cook (2)

3. Masquerade, Williams (3)

4. Reflex, Francis (4)

5. Firestarter, King (5)

6. Answer as a Man, Caldwell (6)

7. Rage of Angels, Sheldon (7)

8. Creation, Vidal (8)

9. Come Pour the Wine, Freeman (9)

10. The Key to Rebecca, Pollen (10)

NONFICTION

1. Richard Simmons’ Never-Say-Diet Book, Simmons (1)

2. Cosmos, Sagan (2)

3. Nice Girls Do, Kassorla (4)

4. The Last Mafioso, Demaris (5)

5. Molloy’s Live for Success, Molloy

6. Nothing Down, Allen (8)

7. Paper Money, Smith (9)

8. William E. Donoghue’s Complete Money Market Guide, Donoghue with Tilling (7)

9. Best Evidence, Lifton

10. You Can Negotiate Anything, Cohen

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