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...Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The author has chosen a dark theme for his uncommonly well-written first novel-an aging plumber's bout with melancholy after the death of his wife...
...Manfred Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of teen-age Nazi conscripts, thrown into the suicidal campaign of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains, but this time those of a less savory hero on the loose in a Pittsburgh slum...
...Manfred Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of Nazi teen-age conscripts thrown into the suicidal campaigns of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains but this time those of a less savory hero on the loose in a Pittsburgh slum...
Five Finger Exercise. One of the Broadway season's few well-written plays is the work of British Playwright Peter Shaffer, who nearly kills an outsider by shoving him into the deadly crossfire of a devastatingly ordinary and unhappy family...
...Separate Peace, by John Knowles. A first novel that is exceptionally well-written, and rarer still, thoroughly controlled, about a schoolboy's discovery of a knot of homicidal jealousy within himself...