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January 3, 1983
FICTION
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. One of Latin
America's leading writers transforms the vagaries of his youth into a
daring, multilayered novel about love and art in Lima, Peru.
Bech Is Back by John Updike. Henry Beck, an exquisitely blocked
author, returns, marries and almost accidentally produces a
bestseller in one of Updike's most adroit and lively comic
performances.
The Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Nobel laureate
chooses 47 tales of demons, dybbuks and exuberantly flawed men and
women, set mainly in his native Poland and his adopted Manhattan.
The Dean's December by Saul Bellow. In a tale of two cities,
Bucharest and Chicago, another Nobelist meditates on the dual natures
of freedom and totalitarianism.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. The family that
dines together declines together in this bittersweet novel of a brave
and eccentric Baltimore household.
NONFICTION
Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon. A leading travel writer voyages back
to her childhood for an unsentimental assessment of immigrant life
and her coming of age in New York, circa 1920.
Isak Dinesen by Judith Thurman. Karen Blixen, a modern Scheherazade,
lived as a baroness in Denmark and a farmer in Africa; along the way
she produced haunting stories, none more complex and intriguing than
the one of her own life.
Late Innings by Roger Angell. Baseball's unofficial scorer replays
five turbulent seasons and still finds plenty of warm memories in the
summer game.
Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson. The first wife of the late
John Berryman looks back at the years she spent among a brilliant and
damaged generation of poets.
The Last Kings of Thule by Jean Malurie. An Arctic adventurer in the
tradition of Peary, Cook and Rasmussen poignantly describes the lives
of Greenland's Eskimo nomads as the 20th century encroaches on their
Sahara of ice and snow.