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A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. This memoir of Paris, which the author suggested should be read as fiction, has a ghostly quality: it reads as if the author had written in the '20s what in fact he wrote in the '50s. All the famous writers are there: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, the Fitzgeralds, characterized memorably, if sometimes nastily.
THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carré.
A reissue of the author's first two books in one volume. One is a slightly fey mystery set in C. Day Lewis' social set at Oxford; the other is a dress rehearsal for The Spy Who Came In from the Cold—with all the props, some of the characters and bleak tone. Both plots are exciting.
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. Into his fleeting reign as Emperor of Rome (A.D. 361-363) Julian crammed enough wars and grandiose plans to make Alexander the Great seem inert. With elegance and flourish, Vidal's novel records every last adventure, including Julian's attempt to abolish Christianity, but it does not quite capture its elusive subject.
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FICTION
1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week)
2. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (2)
3. Armageddon, Uris (3)
4. Julian, Vidal (4)
5. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (5)
6. The Spire, Golding (6)
7. The Group, McCarthy (7)
8. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (8)
9. The 480, Burdick (9)
10. The Martyred, Kim
NON FICTION
1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)
2. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (2)
3. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (9)
4. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (3)
5. Harlow, Schulman (6)
6. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur
7. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (4)
8. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (7)
9. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (10)
10. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver
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