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- January 4, 1988BOOKSBEST of '87
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- THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe. From the foibles of
- criminal justice in the Bronx to the follies on Wall Street, New
- York City and its movers and shakers are done to a crisp by the
- leading social satirist of his generation.
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- THE CHILD IN TIME by Ian McEwan. This story about a girl
- kidnaped from a supermarket checkout bridges the gap between
- private anguish and public policy in contemporary England. A
- masterly work by one of Britain's finest young writers.
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- THE COUNTERLIFE by Philip Roth. In a metaphysical thriller,
- Nathan Zuckerman, the author's durable doppelganger, once again
- becomes an instrument for examining the relationship between
- fact and fiction.
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- MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK by Saul Bellow. An eminent botanist is
- the hapless hero of the Nobel laureate's rueful, comic tale of
- love and money among the intellectuals.
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- A SPORT OF NATURE by Nadine Gordimer. In her ninth novel, the
- distinguished South African writer tells the visionary story of
- a wayward young white woman's efforts to help turn her homeland
- over to its long-suffering inhabitants.
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- Nonfiction
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- THE FATAL SHORE by Robert Hughes. An indefatigably researched
- and uncompromising history of Australia that lays bare that
- nation's buried origins as a penal colony. Hughes is the art
- critic of TIME.
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- A HISTORY OF THE JEWS by Paul Johnson. Everything anyone ever
- wanted to know about the Chosen People, brilliantly organized,
- interpreted and narrated by one of Britain's most distinguished
- journalist- scholars.
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- THE LIFE OF KENNETH TYNAN by Kathleen Tynan. The widow of the
- late great theater critic and sexual propagandist is
- astonishingly frank about her husband's demons and demonettes.
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- THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes. The best
- account to date about the ideas, politics and people responsible
- for the nuclear age--to say nothing of the Age of Anxiety.
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- NIXON: THE EDUCATION OF A POLITICIAN 1913-1962 by Stephen E.
- Ambrose. The first of a two-volume biography of the most complex
- and controversial politician of our time examines the former
- President's beginnings in California.
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