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...product of a "death drive"? Is civilization at the mercy of a nameless army of self-annihilators, men who kill with an almost sexual relish because they are secretly in love with death? In The War Lover (an October Book-of-the-Month Club choice), Novelist John Hersey (The Wall, A Single Pebble) has apparently sworn by the beard of Freud to bed Mars on the analyst's couch...
...should not dare take a crack at a political novel. No novelist, but a knowing man on the subject of politicians, Allen Drury, U.S. Senate correspondent for the New York Times, thus stepped into a near vacuum in U.S. letters. His Advise and Consent is the August Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and Author Drury thought he could afford to be adamant when the B.O.M. asked him to cut his great prose pudding. So it comes to the reader with all its fat intact, but no one really interested in the workings of Washington politics will complain too much...
Beyond Politics. Around the world the name of Boris Pasternak, until recently familiar to few except fellow poets and literary specialists, has assumed a kind of magic. In U.S. book stores, Zhivago, the No. 1 bestseller, is periodically out of stock; U.S. sales to this week: 344,000 copies. The publisher (Pantheon) has a new printing of 430,000 copies scheduled, and the Book-of-the-Month Club is rushing Zhivago to its subscribers as an alternate choice. It has been translated into 17 languages: the book without a country will shortly span the globe. At least some clandestine copies...
Author McMinnies is not a novelist of the first rank, but her second book puts her well in the fore of the usual crowded field panting for the Ladies' Plate. The shrewd characters who make book on form -the book-clubmakers-have given her the accolade (Book-of-the-Month). After the novel's male characters have rescued Milly from the consequences of her own idiocy, the heroine, seemingly immune from disaster, asks her husband: "Darling, where do you suppose we'll go next?" Fans of Milly-or of Author McMinnies -can hardly wait to find...
Died. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 79, novelist (The Bent Twig) and magazine writer, member for a quarter-century of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection board; in Arlington...