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...Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff...
...Number, James Merrill ∙Sophie's Choice, William Styron ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth ∙The Living End, Stanley Elkin NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙The White Album, Joan Didion ∙When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙ I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann & Samuel Charters ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙ The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙ The White Album, Joan Didion ∙ When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
...Merrill ∙Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙The Living End, Stanley Elkin NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Eraser ∙I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙The White Album, Joan Didion ∙When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
...Author Geoffrey Wolff tried to capture his own outlandish grifter of a parent in his first novel, Bad Debts (1969). In The Duke of Deception he tries again, this time discarding fiction and giving the facts a chance. They are colorful but not, at first glance, terribly consequential. Arthur Samuels Wolff, nicknamed Duke for his noble pretensions, was neither famous nor accomplished, except at the art of running up unpaid bills, and even that skill deserted him at the end. To Geoffrey and his younger brother Toby, their father's life was a matter of putting on heirs...