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- January 2, l984BOOKSBEST OF '83
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- Fiction
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- The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth. The conclusion of the
- Nathan Zuckerman trilogy finds Roth's comic writer-hero
- disillusioned with fiction and headed for medical school and
- more trouble.
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- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The
- 1982 Nobel laureate mixes imagination and fact into a
- suspenseful novella of honor and revenge in a Colombian town.
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- Ironweed by William Kennedy. In the third novel set in his
- native Albany, the author traces a bum's progress through the
- late Depression and his old upstate New York haunts.
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- Pitch Dark by Renata Adler. A sophisticated narrator, nearly
- indistinguishable from the author, uses anecdote and bits of
- intriguing conversation to reflect on her mobile and solitary
- life.
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- Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason. Times are
- changing in western Kentucky, the setting for these tales of
- restless wives, footloose truckers and feisty senior citizens.
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- Nonfiction
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- Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon. After an unhappy
- marriage, a wanderer takes to the U.S. back roads to examine his
- country and his American Indian roots.
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- The Last Lion by William Manchester. One award-winning
- biographer's highly charged, worshipful narrative of Winston
- Spencer Churchill's spectacular rise as soldier, author and
- politician.
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- Modern Times by Paul Johnson. The crusty former editor of the
- New Statesman blames Einstein, Marx and no-fault liberalism for
- the evils of the "me" century.
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- Stieglitz by Sue Davidson Lowe. The photographer's grand-niece
- casts an affectionate, scholarly look back at "Uncle Al," the
- cantankerous genius who transformed American photography from
- reproduction to art.
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- White Mischief by James Fox. As the sun sets luridly on the
- British Empire, circa 1940, Kenya colonials go to pieces in a
- scandalous, riveting tale of murder and retribution.
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