Current fiction
The Bitter Season
By ROBERT M. COATES
Through all of his writing, Robert Coates has con–
cerned himself' with what exists beneath the surface.
In this new novel, he has written the story of a
civilian in wartime and has brought all the sensi–
tiveness and adventurousness that mark his work to
bear upon the life of a man who is at once individual
and universal.
$2.50
The Iron Chain
By EDWARD NEWHOUSE
Most of the twenty-one stories in this collection
were first published in
The New Yorker,
and their
impact as a group derives from the fact that they
all deal with people tethered by the iron chain of
cir~umstance
forged by the war.
$2.50
Letty
Fox
HER LucK
By CHRISTINA STEAD
The story of Letty Fox and her wayward luck is the
story of young women in these years of change, a
mirror of local custoos and a satire on marriage
relations.
$3.50
