THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER
by John Cheever · Knopf
This collection of Cheever's short fiction features the Swimmer, The enormous radio, The housebreaker of Shady Hill and fifty-eight other stories written and published over the past three decades.
SECOND GENERATION
by Howard Fast · Houghton Mifflin
This sequel to "The Immigrants" depicts the life of Barbara Lavette, daughter of the son of a poor Italian immigrant and a woman of San Francisco's elite, from the Depression through World War II.
DRESS GRAY
by Lucian K. Truscott IV · Doubleday
When the body of a West Point cadet is found in a nearby lake, the academy's statement is startling at odds with what his best friend knows to be true. With the big brass on his back and a minefield ahead of him, he sets out to uncover what West Point will do anything to hide. It could cost him his career as well as his life.
THE PRAISE SINGER
by Mary Renault · Pantheon
Manuscripts: Funeral Games (1981), The Last of the Wine (1956), and The Praise Singer (1978).
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