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...inner conflict not by denying her faith but by requesting and receiving a papal release from her vows in 1944. As told by Author Kathryn Hulme, herself a Roman Catholic convert, Sister Luke's ordeal has the characterization, pace and dramatic intensity of a good novel. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice to be published next week, The Nun's Story (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $4) looks into a world most readers could scarcely enter in any other...
Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948). published by a medical textbook house, caught on like a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, unexpectedly became a bestseller and made its author's name a national byword. Its successor, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), sold less well. What appealed to the public was precisely what horrified many a scientist: the implication in both books that, despite the small size of the statistical samples (5.300 men and 5,940 women), the studies reflected an accurate cross section of human sexual behavior...
...proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer selection, this novel about a Navy public-relations crew stationed in the Pacific tickled Hollywood's fancy for a spectacular $355,000 plus royalties, and is nicely timed to catch readers with their hammocks up and guards down...
...onetime radio announcer who made $720 from his first novel, and shelved the second in disgust. This one is already a smash success. Even before publication, Columbia Pictures bought the movie rights for $150,000. The novel also won the Atlantic Prize, was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club (February) and Reader's Digest Book Club. It is the bristling, flamboyant saga of the decline and fall of the big city boss...
Author MacKinlay Kantor, who has converted the Civil War into a living as well as a passion (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware), has turned the grisly fact of Andersonville into a huge, massively researched novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for November) which will give Civil War fiction buffs their greatest hour since Gone With the Wind...