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...result is that the right books are sometimes read, often for what seem to be the wrong reasons: artful publicity, blind luck, a nagging cultural conscience that periodically requires the public to atone for reading several Chapman Reports by acknowledging one To Kill a Mockingbird. Whatever the reasons, the book world almost certainly is about to see the fascinating process begin again with A Long and Happy Life, the first novel of a 29-year-old North Carolinian now living in Oxford, England: Reynolds Price...
...Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3) 10. The Bull from the Sea, Renault...
...Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week) 2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2) 3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5) 4. Captain Newman, M.D., Rosten (6) 5. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell (3) 6. Daughter of Science, West (4) 7. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (7) 8. The Ivy Tree, Stewart (9) 9. Little Me, Dennis (8) 10. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins...
...work." But this, insisted the man who is reputed to be John F. Kennedy's favorite mystery author, was merely "a strong indictment of the CIA." Reverting to her pre-Pulitzer past, when she came within a semester of a law degree. Novelist Harper (To Kill a Mockingbird) Lee, 35, cast herself in the unlikely role of occasional legal adviser and researcher for Truman Capote, a longtime friend from Scouting days in Monroeville, Ala. After accompanying the aging (37) boy author on a fact-finding and mood-gathering trip to Garden City, Kans.-the scene of the Clutter murder...
...Kill a Mockingbird...