Hardcover Fiction

by Robert Crichton · Simon & Schuster

by Allen Drury · Doubleday

Uses characters and settings from Advise and consent and A shade of difference.

by Jacqueline Susann · Random House

Three beautiful women compete in the New York entertainment world, where sex is a weapon and nearly everyone depends on "dolls" (pills).

by Rebecca West · Viking Press

by Mary Renault · Pantheon

by Edwin O'Connor · Little, Brown and Company

by Bernard Malamud · Farrar, Straud and Giroux

by James Clavell · Atheneum

by Harry Mark Petrakis · David McKay

"A Dream of Kings" tells the tale of Leonidas Matsoukas, a half-charlatan and half-concerned adviser, who is by turns a compulsive gambler and adulterer. But Matsoukas's dreams are fixed on an ailing son, for whose cure everything must be sacrificed. A journey to the sacred land of Greece will restore the health of the child and, perhaps too, the dignity of the father.

by John O'Hara · Random House

Twenty-one new stories, including four of novella length.