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Week of October 18, 1970

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ZELDA
Nancy Milford
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ZELDA

by Nancy Milford · Harper & Row

17 wks on list

Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own.From years of exhaustive research, Nancy Milford brings alive the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda and clarifies as never before her relationship with Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.

5
BALL FOUR
Jim Bouton and Leonard Shecter
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BALL FOUR

by Jim Bouton and Leonard Shecter · World Publishing Co

15 wks on list

A famous expose of baseball behind the scenes has been expanded to include Bouton's comeback to the big leagues, the breakup of his marriage, and his current career as a writer and television personality

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PAPILLON
Henri Charriere
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PAPILLON

by Henri Charriere · William Morrow and Company

2 wks on list

Papillon is an autobiographical novel, or sometimes referred to as a narrative novel. A memoir by convicted felon Henri Charrière that accounts for a fourteen-year period in Charrière's life (October 26, 1931 to October 18, 1945) from when he was wrongly convicted of murder in France and sentenced to a life of hard labor at the Devil's Island penal colony, to when he escaped from prison to Venezuela free of French justice.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.