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January 4, 1982BOOKSBEST OF '81
FICTION
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone. Three spiritually adrift
gringos and a collection of exotic supporting players bump into
their fates on the fringes of a Central American revolution.
Rabbit it Rich by John Updike. The third adventure of Rabbit
Angstrom finds the ex-jock older, thicker around the middle, but
still faithful to his love affair with the fading American
dream.
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas. A dark age revolves around the
solitary figure of a woman analyzed by Sigmund Freud and later
killed by the Nazis at Babi Yar.
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. Several millenniums after
nuclear catastrophe, a group of survivors huddles near "Cambry"
(Canterbury) and tries to reinvent the English language and
rediscover gunpowder.
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. The author of The
World According to Garp introduces a sweet, dangerous dreamer
who transports his odd family from New England to the city of
waltzes and Wittgenstein.
NONFICTION
The Hour of Our Death by Phillippe Aries. One of France's most
brilliant and original sociologists traces 1,000 years of
changing attitudes about dying, grief and funerals.
Ernest Hemingway: Selected letters, 1917-1961 edited by Carlos
Baker. Through four decades. Papa ranges forth on subjects that
include the state of his art and the condition of his
reputation, marriages and bowels.
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladmir Nabokov. The master
talks about the subject he knows and loves the best: the
classics written in the first of his native tongues.
Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana
Trilling. The murder of Herman Tarnower and the trial of Jean
harris are given a shrewd, unforgiving analysis by critic with
literary and moral sensibilities.
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm. By
using the confidences of a pseudonymous psychotherapist, a witty
and provocative reporter puts the "talking cure" on the couch,
and wisely prescribes further treatment.