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be of particular interest to PR readers.
• A 25
%
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descriptions of titles available throu!ilh May 1976 appear on the next 4 pages.
PR discount prices are listed on p. 323 followed by an order form.
(Descriptions of books are furnished by the publishers)
THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH
1976, edited by Nathan Glazer and Irving
Krlstol. Basic Books, $10.00
Articles by Daniel P. Moynihan, Samuel
P. Huntington , Martin Diamond, James
Q.
Wilson, Nathan Glazer, Irving Kristol, Sey–
mour Martin Lipset, Robert Nisbet, Daniel
Bell, and others. The authors take up the
system's major institutions as these have
adapted to changes in American society.
They evaluate these adaptations and ex–
plore changes in American political culture
which threaten the system's legitimacy.
BEYOND THE BEDROOM WALL, a novel
by Larry Wolwode_ farrar, Straus and
Giroux, $12_50
By the author of
What I'm Going To Do,
I Think,
which received the William faulk–
ner Foundation Award for "The most nota–
able first novel" of 1969,
Beyong The Bed–
room Wall
explores the struoture of the
American family with honesty, daring and
~reat
artistry.
THE BUENOS AIRES AfFAIR: A Detec–
tive Novel, by Manuel PUlg, translated
by Suzanne Jill Levine. C!.Itton, $8.9S
The Buenos Aires Affair,
the latest
work of the well-known South American
writer, Manuel Puig, is about a man com·
pulsively seeking to destroy himself.
Puig's two previous novels,
Betrayed by
Rita Hayworth
and
Heartbreak Tango,
re–
ceived extensive critical acclaim and
were named A.L.A. Books of the Year.
THE JOY OF SPORTS: End Zones,
Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Conse–
cration of the American Spirit, by
Michael Novak_ Basic Books, $10.00
Michael Novak, an intellectual best
known for his writings on the role of eth–
nicity in American politics and culture has
written a unique book on sports, one that
combines the authority of an expert with
the lyricism of a man in love.
MARILYN THE WILD, by Jerome Charyn.
Arbor House, $8_95
This high voltage, complex novel, a
dizzying vortex of sex and violence, pulls
the reader into a literate thriller that won't
let go until the very last page. "Charyn
forces one deep into his inimitable world
of tough-talking fuzz. You won't forget in
a hurry . .. " -CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN–
HAUPT,
The New York Times.
LYING, DESPAIR, JEALOUSY, ENVY,
SEX, SUICIDE, DRUGS AND THE GOOD
LIfE, by Leslie farber. Basic Books,
$10.00
Leslie Farber is a practicing psycho–
analyst as well as a critic of the culture of
our times. His subject here is the trials,
sorrows, and failings of day-to-day exis–
tence-the kind that are endured by
everyone but are rarely talked about as
they are actually experienced.
