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SELECTED LETTERS OF MALCOLM LOWRY, edited by Harvey Breit and Margerie Bonner Lowry. A tragic novelist—whom drink, neglect and poverty might have carried to death in Mexico or oblivion in the Canadian wilderness—shows in his letters the courage and dedication to his craft that enabled him to produce his single masterpiece Under the Volcano, a modern version of Dante's Inferno.
THE SAVAGE STATE, by Georges Conchon. This scorching satire on race politics in Africa is written with an acetylene torch, should be read through goggles.
VICTORIAN SCANDAL, by Roy Jenkins. The Dilke Case was the Profumo Affair of the Victorian era, a sensational politico-sexual scandal that rocked an administration and blasted the brilliant career of the man who at 42 had already been designated as Gladstone's successor. The story is authoritatively told by Historian Roy Jenkins, new Home Secretary in Britain's Labor government.
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