ZERO PRESS BOOKS FALL 1956
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT'S previous
novels published in America received an
unprecedented acclaim from every quar–
ter. Brendan Gill observed in
The New
Yorker
that "before the reader is through
he will be a party to revelations of the
kind that Faulkner and Caldwell seem,
by comparison, to handle with boyish awk–
wardness and overconcern"; in the
Yale
R eview
Orville Prescott remarked that
Miss Compton-Burnett's writing "is un–
like anything ever written by anyone else" ;
The New York Times
hailed "an extrava–
gantly humorous writer whose form of wit
thrives as well on tragedy as on comedy";
while back
in
her native England the
New
Statesman
calls her "a woman of cruel
wisdom and wit ... the unconscious self–
revelation of the characters is extraordi–
nary. No quotations could do her book
justice."
A NOVEL
BROTHERS
AND
SISTERS
by Ivy Compton-Burnett
280 pages
$3.75
SEVENSHORTSTORIES
A
THIRSTY
EVIL
by Gore Vidal
154 pages
$3.00
GORE VIDAL'S last novel,
M essiah,
was
described by Elizabeth Bowen in
The
T atler
as a "strange and brilliant work,
oddly haunting," and in the
Boston Globe
as "Gore Vidal's crowning novel, the ful–
fillment of every reviewer's expectation
for him. We have watched his beautiful
prose, his intellectual and imaginative
growth from
Williwaw
through
The City
and the Pillar
and
The Judgment of Paris.
Now this satirical novel . .. bright with
irony and relieved with humor . . . is a
commentary on the hysterias that sweep
our present culture. It is a brilliant and
hypnotic achievement."
A rare novel "by one of our most talented writers."-Selden Rodman
THE MAN
WHO
WENT AWAY
a novel by THEMISTOCLES HOETIS
SECOND EDITION
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