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FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. Capable of Honor, Dairy (3) 3. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2) 4. The Captain, De Hartog (5) 5. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (4) 6. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (6) 7. The Birds Fall Down, West (8) 8. All in the Family, O'Connor (7) 9. Five Smooth Stones, Fairbairn (9) 10. Tai-Pan, Clavell...
...Arrangement, Kazan...
...ARRANGEMENT by Elia Kazan. 444 pages. Stein...
...more important question is: How did Director Elia Kazan, whose America America was a moving and perceptive first novel, come to manufacture this muddled, massive mistake? Perhaps the answer lies in Kazan's past as an Academy Award-winning film maker. His publishers tried to make the most of it by throwing a splashy show-biz-style, pre-publication party aboard the liner France in New York Harbor, drawing everybody from Tennessee Williams to Andy Warhol; on paper, Kazan tries to make the most of it with splashy writing: dream sequences, yellowed letters, soliloquies to mirrors, toys...
...Moral of Kazan's story: "No one can live completely as he'd wish. We all pay something in time and in disgust for rent and for groceries. It's an arrangement you make with society, which is itself an arrangement, you understand?" Sure, but what else...