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NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Do You Know About New York Review Books?
New York Review Books is doing a great public service by bringing classic books back into print. They are all paperbacks and we have many favorites:
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY ($12.95), by J.L.Carr, is a delicate book about the reverberations of World War I in a small British town.
THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR ($15.95), by J.G. Farrell, is considered by many to be a much better book about British colonialism in India than A Passage to India. It certainly is tougher.
THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH ($17.95), by Thomas Flanagan, one of the great American writers, is the first in a trilogy of books about the Irish independence movement.
LIFE AND FATE ($22.95), by Vasily Grossman, is one of the greatest anti-war novels and one of the greatest anti-Soviet novels, written by a brave Russian in 1960.
THE GO-BETWEEN ($14.95), by L.P. Hartley, is that memorable novel about a boy who facilitates the illicit love he doesn’t understand.
ENCHANTED APRIL ($14.95) is a beguiling book by Elizabeth Von Arnim about three women who rent an Italian villa together and how the warmth of Italy changes each one.
MEMOIRS OF AN ANTI-SEMITE ($15.95), by Gregor Von Rezzori, is a brilliantly perceptive novel in the form of a memoir about Central Europe between the wars, a must-read for anybody going to that part of the world.
THE TENANTS OF MOONBLOOM ($14), by Edward Lewis Wallant, is a brilliant novel by a Jewish American writer who died early and is all but forgotten. This book is about a man collecting rents in New York City for his slumlord brother.
STONER ($14.95), by John Williams, our bestseller among this group, is about a professor of literature in an unhappy marriage.
There is much more, too. New York Review Books is bringing the Belgian mystery master Georges Simenon back into print. Especially popular are DIRTY SNOW ($14), RED LIGHTS ($14) and STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE ($14).
Two brilliant works of criticism (among others) from two favorite critics: Francis Steegmuller’s FLAUBERT AND MADAME BOVARY ($16.95) and TO THE FINLAND STATION ($18.95), by Edmund Wilson, tracing the roots of the Russian Revolution through the 18th and 19th century until Lenin arrives in St. Petersburg.
A classic book of war reporting, Alistair Horne’s A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE ($19.95), is about the horrible Algerian War of Independence.
A number of biographies, among them HONS AND REBELS ($14), Nancy Mitford’s adorable book about her peculiar family;and the classic biography of SHELLEY: The Pursuit ($22.95), by Richard Holmes.
There are children’s books and science and lots more. It’s a great and growing list and we will try to keep you updated periodically.
