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FLOOD, by Robert Penn Warren. With his considerable talent for narrative and sense of place, the author of All the King's Men observes Fiddlersburg, Tenn., in the strange, revealing twilight that precedes the town's disappearance beneath the flooding waters of a federal dam project.
THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. This second novel about the Wapshot family is related to but very different from the earlier Wapshot Chronicle: the Chronicle's traditional way of life is not lost, but becomes a vision in the Scandal that makes more bearable the absurdities of the improvised present.
KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Shirley Ann Grau. Miscegenation, political vengeance and racial hatred unto the third generation are the Faulknerian themes, but Author Grau writes with such quiet directness that the violence serves to define, by contrast, a deeper sense of order and love.
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