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IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
Sinclair Lewis
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
by Sinclair Lewis · Doubleday, Doran
8 wks at #1 · 6 on list
A dark satire about the rise of a fascist American dictator.
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VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR CARRIE
Barry Benefield
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BUTTERFIELD 8
John O'Hara
BUTTERFIELD 8
by John O'Hara · Harcourt, Brace
6 wks on list
Set amid Manhattan's fast set in the early 1930s, Butterfield 8 is the tale of an abrupt and destructive sexual affair between a respectably married society man and a wild and tragically corrupted young girl, that tears both their lives apart.
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