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PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. An account of Hemingway's saddest years, told by a friend who shared them.
OMENSETTER'S LUCK, by William H. Gass. A portrait of the Puritan as a dirty old man. Philosophy Professor Gass pits a preacher crazed by suppressed sex and overt malice against a man who is simply good. Comic fireworks result.
THE BONAPARTES, by David Stacton. Napoleon may have been an ogre to his enemies, but his Corsican kin, disposed about the vacant thrones of Europe, made up a menagerie of bizarre misfits. Historical muckraking at its lighthearted best.
THE DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. Burgess' late-blooming agility as a humorist is evident in this 1960 novel, just now reaching the U.S. in the wake of his growing reputation.
THE LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. As he proved in his D-day marathon, The Longest Day, the author is a thorough reporter, and his account of the fall of Berlin is an encyclopedic narrative.
A GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. The novel romps with rare grace and good humor through the tangled woods of adolescence, first love and new manhood as a North Carolina farm boy hunts for his lost brother and a wandering python.
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