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Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The author, lured by the sirens of meaninglessness, gives too much attention to a tedious hero who finds life empty. Still, Roth's eye for irony and ear for dialogue are among the best, and they make his long novel of the university young well worth reading.
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing. Self-knowledge run fiercely to earth makes a rewarding literary chase in this well-written novel about a woman author, even though some of the ground—Communism, failed sex—is already thoroughly trampled.
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. The fierce rivalry of two old men of letters ends in death for one, a bitter awakening for the other.
The Reivers, by William Faulkner. The last mellow work of the great Southern writer, culminating a 30-year love affair with Yoknapatawpha County.
Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The saint loves and suffers in an agonizingly human way in the most powerful account of his life ever written.
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NONFICTION
1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. The Guns of August, Tuchman (4) 4. In the Clearing, Frost (3) 5. Calories Don't Count, Taller (5) 6. Six Crises, Nixon (8) 7. Conversations with Stalin, Djilas (6) 8. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (7) 9. One Man's Freedom, Williams 10. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (9)
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