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THE FAR FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. A posthumous selection of the poems Roethke wrote during the last seven years of his life celebrates movingly and prophetically "the last pure stretch of joy, the dire dimension of a final thing."
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating historical novel, well researched, yet remaining oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman emperor whose turbulent, 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between pagan Hellenism and early Christianity.
A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outer-world of fame.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (4 last week)
2. Armageddon, Uris (3)
3. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carré (1)
4. Julian, Vidal (2)
5. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (6)
6. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (5)
7. The 480, Burdick (7)
8. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (8)
9. The Spire, Golding (9)
10. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer
NONFICTION
1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)
2. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (2)
3. Harlow, Shulman (3)
4. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (4)
5. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (7)
6. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (9)
7. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (6)
8. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (5)
9. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver (10)
10. The Burden and the Glory, Kennedy
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