New fiction from
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Harcourt, Brace
Cousin to Human
Jane Mayhall.
A vigorously writ–
ten, yet deeply compassionate
novel about a musically talented
young girl who, in the course of
a crucial year, moves from the
crudeness of her teen-age world
and the limitations of her family
life
to
a discovery of her own
powers. Jane Mayhall has pub–
lished stories and poems in
PO/T'–
tisan Review, Sewanee Review,
Harper's Bazaar, Botteghe Os–
cure,
and other periodicals. $4.50
The Work of an
Ancient Hand
Curtis Harnack.
"Meticulously
integrated as a mosaic, it pre–
sents in lucid prose a composite
portrait of a whole community
inside Iowa . . . with a trium–
phant mixture of compassion and
wonder. No other novel I have
recently read can quite equal
Mr. Harnack's for its psycho–
logical sagacity, its warmth and
sobriety, its humor and its wis–
dom."-Carlos Baker, Princeton
University.
$4.50
Free Fall
William Golding.
A novel of bril–
liance and intensity, by the au–
thor of
Lord of the Flies
and
The Two Deaths of Christopher
Martin,
in which a distinguished
English painter tries to discover,
by reconstructing the key events
of his past, at which point in his
life he lost his freedom of choice.
"A most expertly and imagina–
tively written work of fiction."
-The Times Weeklll Review
(London)
$3.95
Forest of the Night
Madison Jones,
author of
The
Innocent.
Strong action and a
dark, hypnotic power distinguish
Madison Jones's new novel, in
which an idealistic young Vir–
ginian pits his strength against
the violence of the Tennessee
frontier of 1802.
$4.50
The Hussar
Gregor von Rezzori.
This book,
which marks the first American
publication of one of Germany's
major writing talents, is set in
an imaginary capital of a middle–
European country after World
War I, and tells, in the tradition
of Hugo, Tolstoy, and Turgenev
-with satire, mock heroism, and
great realism-a story involving
a number of eccentric and highly
unusual Old World characters.
$4.95
McGinnis Speaks
Frank Rooney.
The struggle be–
tween individual and institution,
between the values men inherit
and the values men achieve,
treated in a new novel by the
author of
The Courts of Memory.
The reader encounters George
McGinnis as a young boy enter–
ing a Midwest boarding school,
and leaves him, some twenty
years later, in a Los Angeles
hospital ward recovering from a
near-fatal wound. Between these
two moments, Frank Rooney has
achieved an exposure of a human
being in a scope seldom at–
tempted: the very core of a man
is sought and reached.
$5.00
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
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