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VANITY OF DULUOZ, by Jack Kerouac. Still another in the seemingly endless run of the ex-beat prophet's autobiographical novels. Few writers have asked their memory to speak more often, and the wonder is that Kerouac's replies are still fresh.
DEATH IN LIFE: SURVIVORS OF HIROSHIMA, by Robert Jay Lifton. A Yale research psychiatrist's study of 75 hibaku-sha—survivors of Hiroshima, the greatest unnatural disaster in history. He finds them contaminated by the psychic radiation of guilt, simply because they lived on after their city was annihilated.
THE NAKED APE, by Desmond Morris. A whimsical book of pop science about the sexiest primate of them all: man.
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A shattering fictionalization of the futile 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia, based on the confession of the man who led it.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (2 last week)
2. Vanished, Knebel (1)
3. Myra Breckinridge, Vidal (4)
4. The Tower of Babel, West (6)
5. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (7) 6. Topaz, Uris (3)
7. Christy, Marshall (5) 8. The Instrument, O'Hara
9. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart 10. The President's Plane Is Missing,
Serling (9)
NONFICTION 1. The Naked Ape, Morris (1)
2. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (2)
3. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (3) 4. Our Crowd, Birmingham (4)
5. Tolstoy, Troyat (5) 6. The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology (6)
7. Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Chichester
8. The Economics of Crisis, Janeway (8)
9. The English, Frost and Jay 10. Thomas Wolfe, Turnbull (7)
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