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SIGHTS AND SPECTACLES
MARY McCARTHY, called by
Tim,
Magazine "quite possibly the cleverest
writer the U. S. has ever produced," analyzes the New York theatre-its plays,
its people, its pathology. Based on her Theatre Chronicles which, since 1937, have
been appearing in the
Partisan Review.
$3.50
FRIDAY'S CHILD
WILFRED WATSON, winner of the Governor General's Award of Canada,
presents a fresh and impressive collection of his poetry. "Clearly the work of a
poet who is walking toward importance."-N,w
York Tim,s Book Review. $2.75
AFFAlRS OF STATE': THE EISENHOWER YEARS
RICHARD H. ROVERE sets the battle-lines for the '56 campaign with this
stimulating analysis of the Eisenhower administration. "May prove to be the most
important and prophetic political appraisal of
1956."-,S'aturday Review. $4.50
AN END TO DYING
SAM ASTRACHAN, the author of this widely-acclaimed first novel, is "a new
talent, with perhaps a touch of genius. The book is charged with the creative fire
of a man born to write ... [an] impassioned hunger to explore man's whole life–
to understand who, what and why he
is."-New York Times Book Review. $3.50
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
NELSON ALGREN, author of
The Man with the Golden Arm,
has written "a
novel of immense
vitality
and imaginative exuberance. The picture of Dove burn–
ing out his dammed-up energies in a bonfire of lust and violence is one of the
most extraordinary in contemporary fiction."-N.
Y. Herald Tribune Book Review.
Second Printing, $4.50
THE RIPENING SEED
COLETTE's surprising story about a very young girl and boy who discover that
"passionate love has no age and that love does not possess two different languages."
The motion-picture version was called
The Game of Love.
$3.00
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