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HORNSTEIN'S BOY (373 pp.)-Robert Traver-St. Marffn...
Semi-saturated with sex, psychiatry and courtroom procedure, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder had a surefire formula for bestsellerdom. Hornstein's Boy has not. A novel about a senatorial campaign, it is packed with nothing more exciting than paper dolls and paper arguments clipped from the magazine section of a Sunday newspaper...
Walt Dressier is the reluctant candidate. He is a smalltown lawyer, has ideals, and spouts them. His supporters, including Emil Hornstein, his campaign manager, listen with horrified dismay and, unlike the reader, bury their misgivings. The plot is hand-me-down-hostile columnist, incriminating photograph, Communist smear-and between, Traver rambles on with flatfooted passion about half a hundred worthy causes dear to his heart. So dear to his heart, in fact, that Traver (in real life John Voelker) resigned as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court to write this book. He should have stayed on the bench...
...Anatomy of a Murder, Traver...
FICTION 1 . Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak ( 1 )* 2. Exodus, Uris (3) 3.Lolita, Nabokov (2) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 6. Lady L., Gary (7) 7. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6) 8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (9) 9. The Watch That Ends the Night MacLennan 10. Tenderloin, Adams...