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Amos & Boris by William Steig. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.50. A seagoing rodent and a whale sign a long-term mutual-assistance pact in a variation on the old lion-and-the-mouse caper. In an off year, the year's best...
...Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. Fantasist Barthelme goes through his own looking glass and comes back with a young Alice named Mathilda, some elegant chatter, "a hithering thithering Djinn," and a Chinese lunch that includes sweet and sour ice cream. Most of the pictures-cutouts culled from Victorian-style engravings -are too static for children, though the storm scene (from Gustave Doré's illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) is splendid...
...COMPLETE STORIES by Flannery O'Connor. 555 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
...TENANTS by Bernard Malamud. 230 pages, Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
UPSTATE: RECORDS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF NORTHERN NEW YORK by Edmund Wilson. 386 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...