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The Reivers, by William Faulkner. In a marvelously comic book, the sage of Yoknapatawpha County matches Mark Twain as a teller of tall stories.
An Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. Should old Hugh Peronett sell the Tintoretto and take up with his ex-mistress? In this intriguing novel of upper-class amorousness, the answer leads to further questions, some of them philosophic.
Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The late great Greek novelist restores agony of soul to a saint too often portrayed as sickly sweet.
The Wax Boom, by George Mandel. A complex, absorbing narrative about a hard-driven infantry company in combat.
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. A brilliant, uncompromising portrait of human folly afloat and ashore.
Shut Up, He Explained, selections from Ring Lardner edited by Babette Rosmond and Henry Morgan. A justly famous U.S. satiric wit happily revisited.
Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. A searching study of Northern and Southern writers as they reacted to the brutalities of the Civil War.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week)
2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (4)
3. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (2)
4. The Bull from the Sea, Renault (5)
5. The Fox in the Attic, Hughes (6)
6. Devil Water, Seton (8)
7. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (3)
8. The Big Laugh, O'Hara
9. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell (7) 10. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter
NONFICTION
1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1)
2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2)
3. Calories Don't Count, Taller (3)
4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (6)
5. Conversations with Stalin, Djilas (10)
6. In the Clearing, Frost (4)
7. Six Crises, Nixon (5)
8. Scott Fitzgerald, Turnbull (8)
9. The Last Plantagenets, Costain
10. The Making of the President 1960, White
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