Hardcover Fiction

by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday

by Grace Metalious · Simon & Schuster

by Meyer Levin · Simon & Schuster

Ambassador Theatre, Michael Myerberg presents "Compulsion," dramatization by (producer's version) Meyer Levin, production staged by Alex Segal, with Roddy McDowall, Dean Stockwell, Howard Da Silva, Michael Constantine, settings by Peter Larkin, costumes by John Boxer, lighting by Charles Elson, co-producer Len S. Gruenberg

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner Inc

by Richard Powell · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Gerald Green · Charles Scribner's Sons

A doctor, living in the Brooklyn slums, conducts a one-man campaign against hoodlums.

by Albert Camus · Alfred A. Knopf

by Sybille Bedford · Simon & Schuster

by Rebecca West · Viking Press

The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high-strung eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events are seen. Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the unexpected, and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden masterpieces, and come to the aid of a murderess, will find that they have adventure to spare. In The Fountain Overflows... Rebecca West transmuted her own volatile childhood into enduring art. This is an unvarnished but affectionate picture of an extraordinary family, in which a remarkable stylist and powerful intelligence surveys the elusive boundaries of childhood and adulthood, freedom and dependency, the ordinary and the occult. --Amazon.com.

by John P. Marquand · Little, Brown and Co

"A suspense story of today's cloak and dagger boys, as Jack Rhyce is sent out to Tokyo to explore the sources of the unrest reported by the local agent as sparked by a mystery man, "Big Ben". Jack finds himself paired with a girl, Ruth Bogard, with whom he reluctantly falls in love. This complicates their mission and a number of missteps result, as they stop off in Hawaii, think they have identified "Big Ben" as an airline employee who whistles tunes from The Red Mill and knows far too much about their doings. Once in Tokyo they find their goal blocked by the Japanese secret service, with our old friend Mr. Moto in control."--Goodreads

by Patrick Dennis · Vanguard Press

by William Brinkley · Random House

by Ernest Gann · William Sloane Associates

by John Cheever · Harper & Row

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever’s classic novel about one eccentric New England family, inspired by the author's own adolescence. The Wapshots have called the quintessential Massachusetts fishing village of St. Botolphs home for eons, but now it is time for the next generation—brothers Moses and Coverly—to go out and see the world. Moses heads to New York City and, eventually, a remote island in the South Pacific, while his brother travels south to Washington, D.C., and a job “so secret that it can’t be discussed here.” Meanwhile, back in St. Botolphs, their father, Captain Leander, clashes with his fearsome Cousin Honora, who controls the family purse strings. By turns tragic and deeply funny, The Wapshot Chronicle is a “richly inventive and vividly told” (The New York Times Magazine) work of fiction about one very odd family.

by Richard Bissell · Little, Brown and Company

[This is] a novel about a Midwestern novelist who packs up his family and moves to the outskirts of New York City, so he can adapt his novel about a factory into a musical. He works with two tyro producers, a veteran writer-director and a whole bunch of people. --Richard LeComte at Amazon.com.

by Tom Chamales · Charles Scribner's Sons

Set behind enemy lines in Burma, this New York Times bestseller is "easily one of the best novels to come out of World War II" ( Los Angeles Times). American soldiers and native Kachin troops battle Japanese forces behind enemy lines in the Burmese jungles. But during the brutal campaign to gain territory in the unforgiving tropical landscape, Captain Reynolds and his band of special operations soldiers and guerrilla fighters struggle to find self-awareness, and even love, in the midst of the trials of combat. One of the youngest officers to serve in Merrill's Marauders and OSS Detachment 101—precursors to the Green Berets and Central Intelligence Agency—author Tom T. Chamales brings an unparalleled level of authentic detail and raw intensity to this work of fiction based on his real-life experience in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Never So Few is "an extraordinary and powerful book," unflinching in its portrayal of wartime sacrifice and violence ( Kirkus Reviews, starred). The basis for the movie starring Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen, it offers "dramatic, exciting, and concretely detailed accounts of battle action," and joins the ranks of other classic war novels such as From Here to Eternity and The Naked and the Dead in bringing later generations to the frontlines and into the inner lives of the brave men who served ( The New York Times).