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- January 7, 1985BOOKSBEST OF '84
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- Fiction
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- EDISTO by Padgett Powell. A teen-age boy, wise beyond his
- years, recalls a complex adolescence on a sea island off the
- coast of South Carolina.
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- HIM WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH AND OTHER STORIES by Saul Bellow.
- A vibrant cast of big shots and shlemiels stumble painfully
- and comically through the Nobel laureate's latest collection of
- short and long stories.
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- TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE by Norman Mailer. An imaginatively
- plotted murder mystery with metaphysical overtones, from the
- versatile pen of an irrepressible spirit.
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- THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera.
- Czechoslovakia's best novelist plays a number of variations on
- his favorite theme: the difficult pursuit of happiness in a
- totalitarian state.
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- THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK by John Updike. Satanism, feminism and
- revenge are the volatile ingredients in this witty fantasy set
- in contemporary New England.
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- Nonfiction
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- BLOODS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR BY BLACK VETERANS
- by Wallace Terry. Twenty articulate ex-servicemen contribute
- to a moving verbal portrait of beleaguered pride and surprising
- patriotism.
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- CHURCHILL & ROOSEVELT: THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE edited by
- Warren F. Kimball. The allies plot grand strategies that will
- shape the Western world.
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- DOSTOEVSKY: THE YEARS OF ORDEAL, 1850-1859 by Joseph Frank.
- The second installment of a five-volume study examines the
- wellsprings of the Russian soul.
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- HOME BEFORE DARK by Susan Cheever. A revealing and poignant
- memoir of the author John Cheever by his sorrowing and sometimes
- bitter daughter.
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- SON OF THE MORNING STAR: CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN by Evan
- S. Connell. An unconventional, highly evocative retelling of
- the celebrated military disaster at Bull Run by a novelist
- turned historian.
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