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rich and absorbing book artfully com–
bines new historical information
about birth rates , illegitimacy, family
size, health, and education with fas–
cinating eyewitness accounts by
doctors, priests , and local otticals .
With the publication of this work,
Professor Shorter has provided us
with the first comprehensive history
of the modern family in Western
culture.
THE DEAD FATHER, by Donald
Barthelme. Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, $7.95
The Dead Father is Donald Bar–
thelme's first novel since Snow
White, published in 1967.
BEYOND THE BEDROOM WALL, a
novel by Larry
Woiwod~.
Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, $10.00
By the author of What I'm Going To
Do, I Think , which received the Wil–
liam Faulkner Foundation Award for
"The most notable first novel" of
1969 , Beyond The Bedroom Wall,
explores the structure of the Ameri–
can family with honesty, daring and
great artistry.
THE PLEASURE OF THE TEXT, by
Roland Barthes. Translated by
Richard Miller. Hill and Wang, $5.95
" Roland Barthes is without visible
rival, the most interesting , fertile and
ambitious critic now writing. "–
FRANK KERMODE , New Statesman.
Barthes here explores the question of
what it is we do when we enjoy a text
and by way of an answer sets forth a
poetics of reading.
THE TWENTIES, by Edmund Wilson.
Edited with an introduction by Leon
Edel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
$10.00
Edmund Wilson's journals, as
Leon Edel states in his foreword ,
" provide perhaps the largest authen–
tic document of the time, the obser–
vations of one of the prinCipal actors
in the American twenties."
NEUROSIS AND CIVILIZATION: A
MARXIST/FREUDIAN SYNTHESIS,
by Michael Schneider. Seabury
Press, $12.95
" A lucid , literate, and thorough"
exploration of the borderland be–
tween Marxism and psychoanalysis
which presents both a completely
new critique of the origins of psycho–
analysis and a new approach to a
dynamic psychology which finds its
roots in the tensions present in
society today . "The function of
psychoanalysis as a potential
weapon in the class struggle is bril–
liantly outlined. " - Times Literary
Supplement
U.S. POWER AND THE MULTI–
NATIONAL CORPORATION: The
Political Economy of Direct Foreign
Investment, by Robert G. Gilpin, Jr.
Basic Books, $10.95
This brilliant new book by a dis–
tinguished political scientist is the
first attempt to look at the multi–
national corporation from the point
of view of the national interest–
political and economic, foreign and
domestic . His book marks an impor–
tant first step toward a much-needed
rethinking of U.S. policy .
THE LAND UNKNOWN, by Kathleen
Raine. George Braziller, $6.95
The author, a poet whose book
William Blake has been widely
praised, looks back upon her life.
During her years at Cambridge she
encountered many of the leading lit–
erary figures of the day , among them
Graham Greene and T.S. Eliot. Her
subsequent growth into womanhood
in the company of radicals of varying
persuasions presents a faSCinating
picture of the ferment , both literary
and political , of the 1920s and 1930s.
THE INTERNATIONAL MONEY
GAME, second edition, by Robert Z.
Aliber. Basic Books, $10.00
In this thoroughly revised and
greatly expanded second edition ,
Professor Aliber provides an indis–
pensable and highly readable guide
to the complex-and increasingly
fragile-system through which the
world's business is financed and our
future determined .
I WOULD HAVE SAVED THEM IF I
COULD, by Leonard Michaels.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $7.95
Leonard Michaels's first book of
stories , Going Places, was nomi–
nated for the National Book Award,
translated into European and Oriental
