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...LAST OF THE JUST (374 pp.)-André Schwarz-Bart-Atheneum...
GOOD BYE, AVA, by Richard Bissell (241 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), recalls the widespread complaint that the U.S. lacks comic novelists. This is not true, as is proved weekly by the bestseller lists; the great lack is of novelists who are funny on purpose. In that lodge two of the more notable members are Peter De Vries (The Tents of Wickedness) and Richard Bissell (7½ Cents...
ROBE OF HONOUR, by Alexander Cordell (384 pp.; Doubleday; $4.50), is a costume romance, and usually such books have almost no resemblance to legitimate novels. Ordinarily it is possible to judge each sort according to its own standards: Do broadswords and bustlines glitter sufficiently in the one, are reality's fore and backside faithfully drawn in the other? But now and then a writer with the skill of a Robert Graves succeeds in mixing the two styles. Author Cordell once again attempts the trick with some fairly entertaining results, but he is no Graves...
PORTRAIT OF MAX (317 pp.)-S. N. Behrman-Random House...
...DAYS WERE Too SHORT (335 pp.) -Marcel Pagnol-Doubleday...