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A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. This is the season for female discontent: Joyce Carol Gates joins Philip Roth (When She Was Good) in portraying a poor girl determined to make good, but fated to go mad. A naturalistic, Dreiserian novel of considerable power.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE: THE EVOLUTION OF GENIUS, by Winifred Gerin. This biography of the most prolific and active of the Bronte sisters plumbs the sources of Charlotte's strength (her realism) and weakness (sentimental romanticism).
THE COLD WAR AS HISTORY, by Louis J. Halle, effectively peels away the emotions of 1945-62 to reveal one of history's most clear-cut conflicts resulting from Great Power misunderstanding.
A HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. A first novel about three castoffs of American society who come to rest in New Orleans. Author Stone has achieved a rare combination of humor, despair and moral wrath.
NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1, New American Library. A lively blend of the best contemporary avant-garde fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism collected in a commendable effort to sell quality in quantity in the paperback market.
GOG, by Andrew Sinclair. A bizarre fable—or parable—about an amnesic giant who makes a bewildering pilgrimage through history in quest of himself.
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come.
STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. The story of one man who risked his own life in an effort to take Hitler's, and the unlucky chance that caused him to fail.
RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. A posthumous appreciation of the poet and critic, written by his friends, most of them eminent writers whom he served as unofficial custodian of artistic conscience.
AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best.
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty is told through the personal tragedy of the last, likable heads of the Russian ruling family.
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