Word: forli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The White Album. By Joan Didion. (Simon and Schuster, $9.95): Written in Didion's usual cogent, vivid prose, this scrapbook of 1960s Americana is punctuated with insightful social commentary. But her series of epiphanies don't quite add up to the hoped-for unified masterpiece.
Letters, By John Barth. (Putnam, $16.95): John Barth's endless epistolary novel takes five of the author's old characters and one new one and sets them to writing letters, usually not to each other but to dead people, themselves, imaginary characters, or the author. The letters go on forever...
The Right Stuff By Tom Wolfe. (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $12.95): Remember Project Mercury? Gus Grissom? John Glenn? Tom Wolfe's passionate chronicle of America's entry into the space age, The Right Stuff, brings back the memories--or introduces the subject--of the time when America braced for the...
Albert Einstein. The Human Side. By Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman. (Princeton, $8.95): If all secretaries wrote books the shelves would be full of apalling revelations. But Einstein's secretary--with the aid of a former colleague--has only commendable and tender words for America's most apotheosized scientist. Your...
Diaghilev, By Richard Buckle (Atheneum. $22.95): For the same price you can take Amtrak--one way--to New York and see the Diaghilev exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But what then will you put on your coffee table? Though it makes a great living room conversation-piece, Buckle...