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INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. A replay of the 1942 Battle of Midway by a specialist in the literary art of summoning up remembrance of things past.
END OF THE GAME, by Julio Cortazar. This Argentine author thinks only the unthinkable and imagines the weird and baffling. These 15 stories, one of which was made into the movie Blow-Up, alternately amaze and appall the reader.
THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A painstaking yet entertaining biography of the Victorian explorer and sexologist, Sir Richard Burton, a very flamboyant fellow and a hard chap to map.
NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. Though his performance as critic is generally excellent, Field contributes mainly an engrossing review of Nabokov's entire career—in Russian and English—and traces the roots of such masterpieces as Lolita and Pale Fire.
THE TIME OF FRIENDSHIP, by Paul Bowles. Tales of misanthropy, by a master etcher of the human spirit's dark side.
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FICTION
1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)
3. The Plot, Wallace (4)
4. The Chosen, Potok (3)
5. Washington, D.C., Vidal (5)
6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)
7. The King of the Castle, Holt (7)
8. A Night of Watching, Arnold (8)
9. Night Falls on the City, Gainham
10. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton
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1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1)
2. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2)
3. Our Crowd, Birmingham (3)
4. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (5)
5. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (7)
6. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (4)
7. Everything But Money, Levenson (6)
8. The Death of a President, Manchester (9)
9. Games People Play, Berne (8)
10. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (10)
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