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MAKING GOOD AGAIN, by Lionel Davidson. A suspense novel explores the tangled lives and moral problems involved in the payment of reparations to families persecuted by the Nazis.
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of sto ries, published posthumously.
THE ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet Nam war.
TIME OUT, by David Ely. Horror stories in the modern manner, decked out with computers, spaceships and nuclear weapons —all seen with a fine observant eye for society's foibles.
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Earth. When read straight through, these 14 experimental pieces of fiction by the author of Giles Goat-Boy interact to produce a series of enticing illusions.
OUTER DARK, by Cormac McCarthy. A Southern gothic novel about a backwoods brother and sister, their abandoned child, and three archetypal murderers.
FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugene Ionesco. A leading playwright of the theater of the absurd displays his troubled spirit in a masochistic mosaic.
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