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A SPORT AND A PASTIME, by James Salter. While his characters fall in love, the author has a love affair of his own with rural France. A fine and beautifully written novel.
FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A nostalgic search for the essence of Jewish fatherhood by a loving son who tempers sentiment with just the right amount of irony and cynical insight.
THE UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. A rangy, clumsy 13-year-old goes off to Girl Guide camp to find a few friends but finds herself instead. Along the way, Novelist Glyn, only 19 herself, points out some of the hilariously muddled drills that the Guides perform with girlish intensity.
JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND: THE NEW GERMANY, by Amos Elon. A searching and compassionate study of today's Germany by an Israeli journalist who never forgets that he could have been a victim.
DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. The wiles and wit of Britain's most prodigal Victorian Prime Minister, whose life as recounted in this excellent biography proves even richer than the many versions of its myth.
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