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EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE by Flannery O'Connor. 268 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Richard Chopping. 291 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. On the jacket of this book squats a huge hairy fly-no doubt attracted by the offal inside. There is Mrs. Macklin, a black widow in sweaty corsets, who works days as caretaker of a dreary British office and prowls the night looking for someone to take care of her; Mr. Gender, an amorous Prufrock with boils; Miss Jeacock, a withered office virgin who lures a young clerk to the ladies' room and ecstatically dies of a surfeit. The clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin...
...FAMILY MOSKAT by Isaac Bashevis Singer. 611 pages. Farrar, Straus & G/roux...
...classes, he has been a familiar figure at inter-House athletic events (Kirkland has won the Straus Trophy seven times since 1955), at the House pool tables (he is noted for his skill at billiards), and in his garden...
SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION by Thomas Merton. 328 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...