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ANOTHER COUNTRY (436 pp.)-James Baldwin-Dial Press...
...HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS, by V. S. Naipaul (53 I pp.; McGraw-Hill; $5.95). "I can't tell you how sad it make me to leave this house," the solicitor's clerk told Mr. Biswas. "Really for my mother sake, man. That is the onliest reason why I have to move. The old queen can't man age the steps." And so Mr. Biswas, ex-sign painter, ex-bus conductor, ex-journalist, achieved his heart's desire and moved into a dwelling of his very own. It looked "like a huge and squat sentry...
TALES MY FATHER TAUGHT ME, by Sir Osbert Sitwell (207 pp.; Liftle, Brown; $4.75). As a family, the Sitwells-Sir Osbert, Dame Edith and just plain Sachev-erell-have got more literary linage out of self-exposure, on the basis of less actual literary accomplishment, than any artistic dynasty in history. Osbert. who earlier dealt exhaustively with all his relatives in his autobiography Left Hand, Right Hand!, has now found that its five stout volumes were not enough. Tales My Father Taught Me, the latest entry in this sibling revelry, is an afterpiece entirely devoted to his patrician papa...
BEBO'S GIRL, by Carlo Cassola (249 pp.; Pantheon; $4.50). This brief, bittersweet story of lovers separated by fate was first published in 1960, became the rage of Italy, and won the important Strega Prize (given the year before to Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard...
...LAST PORTAGE, by Walfer O'Meara (289 pp.; Houghfon Mifflin; $5). In 1789 a ten-year-old boy named John Tanner was stolen from a frontier farm in Kentucky by a band of Ojibway Indians. Tanner was raised by the tribe; he wore a breechcloth, carried a tomahawk, and married an Indian woman. But he never really felt at ease among the Indians...