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ASSORTED PROSE, by John Updike. An early arrival on the summer-reading shelf, this collection of nostalgic and humorous essays and reportage (including the classic account of Ted Williams' last game at Boston's Fenway Park), gracefully serves to remind the reader that few writers ex ceed Updike in mastery of words.
THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW, by Wilfred Fowler. A novel about the end of British rule in an African state, written in a very different idiom from most modern fiction—terse, laconic, sinewed prose.
TAKEN CARE OF, by Edith Sitwell. Dame Edith's memoirs, completed shortly before her death last year, shed harsh new light on a gifted metaphysical poet and self-dramatist who acted out endless roles for herself with astounding audacity.
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4. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (4)
5. Hotel, Hailey (5)
6. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (6)
7. Hurry Sundown, Gilden
8. The Source, Michener (8)
9. The Man, Wallace (9)
10. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (7)
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2. Queen Victoria, Longford (3)
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5. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (4)
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7. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg (7)
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