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NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY. In this black and bloody comedy, a callow New York City cop (George Segal) dogs the elusive tracks of a killer (Rod Steiger) who uses a closetful of disguises.
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KING, QUEEN, KNAVE, by Vladimir Nabokov. The eternal love triangle gets some witty edition of twists a in novel this first written in 1928, English-language when the Russian-born prose master was a 28-year-old emigré living in Berlin. A CAB AT THE DOOR, by V. S. Fritcnettist's. The notable brilliantly British belligerent literary account of critic-essay youth spent in genteel poverty ensured by the non-efforts of his cocky, cocky, job-hoping father. THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, by Norman Mailer. The authors "egoisms of curious disproportions" casts him as the mock hero of last fall's peace march on the Pentagon, in a literary tour de force that owes less to journalism than it does to the novelist's gift for relevant distortion. LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The author of Eminent Victorians was the oddest duck on the Bloomsbury pond a fact amply documented on nearly ever one of the 1,229 fascinating pages of this two-volume biography. COUPLES by John Updike. Mate swaping is the game described in living off color, but soul saving is the real stake this rich and subtly rewarding novel by the crown prince of American letters.
THE LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN, Grace Paley. Life's daily tussles find resonance and importance in these short stories by an author gifted with acute perception and and a supple, colloquial style. T.H. White, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The latter-day pursuer of Camelot was himself chased by demons darker than Merlyn ever dreamed of, and all of them are brought to light in an affectionate but unsparing biography. TUNC by Lawrence Durrell. In prose as complex as the computer that plays the villain the wizard of Alexandria expostulates a comic chapter in the continuing epic of man v. his machines.
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