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TUNC, by Lawrence Durrell. A devilishly clever, metaphysical mystery tale about freedom and responsibility, by the author of The Alexandria Quartet.
TO WHAT END, by Ward S. Just. The violent confusion of Viet Nam is artfully conveyed in these impressions by a Washington Post reporter who was wounded while covering the war.
DeFORD, by David Shetzline. A first novel with an unlikely hero—a proud and aging carpenter unluckily stuck on Skid Row—and an even unlikelier success in making real the old man's shining vision and integrity.
CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS, by Theodore H. White. The manipulation of man by man is a proper concern of political journalists, and here one of the best takes an informed look at how it was done in the old days.
THE SELECTED WORKS OF CESARE PAVESE. It has been 18 years since Pavese's suicide, and U.S. publication of these four lean, antiromantic novellas at last gives U.S. readers a chance to see why his work is so highly regarded in his native Italy.
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