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...GREAT FORGERY (501 pp.)-Edith Simon-Little, Brown...
FALSE ENTRY, by Hortense Calisher (484 pp.; Little, Brown...
...LADY, by Howard Spring (448 pp.; Harper; $4.95). Author Spring's 13th novel chronicles the tangled destinies of the Chown family, whose women have a marked tendency to produce bastards. The narrator is George Ledra, the somewhat stuffy scion of a Manchester cotton broker. On vacation in Cornwall, 15-year-old George one felicitous morning hides in the bushes above a beach to watch Sylvia Chown Bascombe and her daughter Janet "wade naked ashore, glistening in the sunshine. They were both beautiful, the one full-breasted, the other budding." It was, thinks George, "a moment that belonged...
...HOUSE, by William Brinkley (373 pp.; Random House; $5.95). There was nothing wrong with Author (Don't Go Near the Water) Brinkley's idea, which was to lampoon a big picture magazine as the sort of hiccup farm where employees run through a four-minute morning, ease up with a five-martini lunch, and frolic back to the office just in time to line up an overnight date with a girl reporter. It was the author's qualifications that did him in. Before giving up journalism for "full-time writing" (as the book-jacket blurb rather cattily...
...SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (214 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.95). In these tales about Poland's Jewish ghettos before World War II, Isaac Singer creates a world so fresh, so full of the beat and cries of astonishing life that he can fairly be called one of the few originals now writing. It is a world in which God and the devil are constantly in contention, in which imps, cabalistic mysteries and ancient Talmudic heresies are as much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these...