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...HEART TO ARTEMIS (316 pp.) -Bryher-Harcourt, Brace & World...
DEATH OF A HIGHBROW (256 pp.)-Frank Swlnnerfon-Doubleday...
...PRIZE, by Irving Wallace (768 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $5.95). "Truth and honesty," proclaims Irving Wallace, are the pure, white lights that guide his path as a novelist. The Chapman Report concerned the sexual shenanigans of a band of interviewers and interviewees taking part in a Kinsey-like study, and brought him fame and $250,000 so far from the American rights alone, including a Hollywood sale. But Wallace insists that sincerity was the mark of his bedside manner. He says that he recoils when people stare at him as if they saw on his face "the leer...
...press is on its way-we've just won the Nobel Prize." THE CONVERSIONS, by Harry Mathews (182 pp.; Random House; $3.50). This first novel by a young poet is an ambitious montage of word play, newspaper lists and fantasies: it all hangs together after a fashion, but some of the pieces might better have stood alone. The main story line concerns the hero's search for the significance of an ancient adze, but some of the meanderings are more interesting. The rapt admirers of a Spanish bullfighter receive stigmata-like wounds in whatever part of the body...
...GOLDEN RENDEZVOUS, by A/isfair MacLean (301 pp.; Doubleday...