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...WORLD IS A WEDDING by Bernard Kops. 261 pages. Coward-McCann...
CHILDREN OF THE WOLF (283 pp.)-Alfred Duggan - Coward-McCann...
FLASH AND FILIGREE, by Terry Southern (204 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), recalls the two-reeler comedies of the silent movies, in which scenes would begin prosaically-with a tea party or dinner in a restaurant-and then break into paroxysms of action. This technique underlies this first novel by Texan Terry Southern, 34, who lives and writes in Switzerland. The book opens quietly at a posh Los Angeles clinic where Dr. Frederick Eichner, "world's foremost dermatologist," listens to the symptoms of a new patient, Felix Treevly. Six pages later the calm is shattered by a verbal and physical...
RUSSIA IN TRANSITION, by Isaac Deutscher (245 pp.; Coward-McCann; $4.50), is a sheaf of essays mostly written during the '50s further bolstering the author's accurate 1953 prediction (in Russia: What Next?) that the Soviet political tundra was due for a big thaw after Stalin's death. Indeed, Polish-born Author Deutscher consumes an inordinate amount of time and space just crowing ("As to my severe critics, I shall only ask how many of them would venture to republish now in book form the views they expressed on Soviet prospects six, seven, or only three years...
...History? THE COMING CAESARS (384 pp.)- Amaury de Riencourt - Coward-McCann...