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PJ-J jSSSS^^B The top ten fictional best sellers, Book Review, are: 1. Good as Gold 2. The Matarese Circle 1*5 Chesapeake 4. War and Remembrance 5. Overload 6. SS-GB 7. Hanta Yo 8. Dubin's Lives 9. Proteus 10. Dress Gray The top ten nonfictional best seller! Book Review, are: 1. The Complete Scarsdale Medical C 2. Lauren Bacall By Myself 3. Sophia, Living and Loving 4. How to Prosper During the Cominj 5. Mommie Dearest 6. A Distant Mirror 7. Linda Goodman's Love Signs. ... 8. Nurse 9. The Complete Book of Running ... 10. American Caesar Hkinl Oil C Mr?i? C* He UkJKJ U. IVIMIII Ul. I11SH9HB9 799-3] Ma?&y$&H5t '-j according to the New York Times Joseph Heller Robert Ludlum James Michener Herman Wouk A -il ? t _ ? I Mfinur naney Len Deighton Ruth Beebe Hill Bernard Malamud Morris L. West Lucian Truscott IV a, according to the New York Times )iet Herman Tarnower, M.D. , Lauren Bacall A.E. Hotchner j Bad Years Howard Ruff Christina Crawford Barbara Tuchman Linda Goodman Peggy Anderson James Fixx William Manchester ico's m )h?nd the Capitoi so/ m - * - Self-c Qhnr Wl I W B By Lehman St I etcvtaro by Susan Sontag; Farrar, St During his recent visit to C complained about literature th "dynamism of American life.' been talking about Susan Sonta fiction, I, etcetera. It must be called short fiction stories in any sense of th nonexistent, characters are vj meaning is scarce. These piece: 10 me principle 01 ambiguity. To call these attempts "fore derstatement; indeed, they an into forms that have all the apj the substance of erudite, fic constantly tries to remind us tellectual Author and that her si Fashionable. They are so busy have no room to deal with the sti hammamrl Si m ? IIMIIIIIIWI WW VI none of the subs The art of fiction, after recreation of reality in a form t truth. Sontag's efforts try only garde style and a witty lexicon; the center, beneath the highlywords and pleasantly radical vi "Project for a Trip to China," begins with the following thre going to China. I will walk acr spanning the Sham Chun River and China. After having been in will walk across the Luhu Bridg Chun River between China an effect of this repetition border admirable form, but totally i purposes of the story. And in the end, it is the clas form and content that kills S< THE 4 ! (?[ s ^ A?s ^ Go^ . tVt>e 2 x>v * F J a Yearbc COMPLE onsciousne; L ?_ _ II t fiction coil* I08 forms are all com ? . their content neve raus and Giroux; $8.95. . , outer shell. Columbia, Tom Wolfe? In fact, at time at fails to reflect the believes the way t< ' He could well have Her symbolism is g's collection of short forced as the pret symbols in front c because it is not short this is! Here's i ie term. Plots are teresting way to ague and unreal and grow out of it by th s seem dedicated only Occasionally, h< ed" would be an un- self-consciousness b brutally hammered subjects. "Baby >earances but none of psychiatrist to di tional prose. Sontag imaginative, alth< > that she is an In- from Who's Afra ,ui ico ai c mvAici II mill ivjui is cJ doing this that they Europe and, seqi uff of literary merit. civilization in the nto forms that have all th tance of erudite, fictional all, deals with the functions well, bi hat can be realized as from Sontag's loo to recreate an avant- But the success her stories are soft in colossal failures polished gloss of cute to force natura ews. allegory, the re outdated, disgust the book's first work, exist for the sole e sentences: "I am Sontag's thought oss the Luhu Bridge generate more th; between Hong Kong i China for a while, I In I, etcetera, e spanning the Sham literary in nature, d Hong Kong." The Since literature s on the absurd; an honesty is a pre innecessary for the purports to be lit attempt by Sonta sic conflict between might just as we cmtag's efforts. Her they could not be r ' GARNET & BI iw mi asm April 23 27 or the 1 st time in 1 75 ye :>ok will be presented in TE WITH GRADUATION ss mars action plex, abstruse and intellectual, but r lives up to the work put into their s one gets the feeling that Sontag 9 write fiction is to make it a puzzle, anything but subtle; in fact, it is as ention of her style. She dangles her >f the reader, saying, "Guess what mother clue . . ." This is an inuse symbolism, but most authors le time they are out of high school. awever, Sontag breaks through hpr ? and gains real insight into her about a couple visiting a scuss their son, is intriguing and High it is essentially lifted straight id of Virginia Woolf? "Unguided am-of-consciousness trip through lentially, through the trappings of writer's life. Here the symbolism annemrannckc hn# ? ?rrwM!Mf(WVW WW( prose... it it still has to struggle to free itself k-Ma-I'm-a-writer style. es dim considerably in light of such as "American Spirits," which tries lism into an unholy union with ssult being an incomprehensible, ting mess. "Debriefing" seems to purpose of showing how unorthodox is, a subject for which it is hard to an a perfunctory interest. Sontag's overall purpose is not and that is the book's biggest fault, is a constant search for truth, requisite in any work. This book ;erature but is actually merely an ig to show how smart she is. She 11 have published her I.Q. scores; nore uninteresting that I, etcetera. & L?k?M 2 2I? ! , ? . ;>>c0 s ^ ^y/0^ w *v ?C * %/ ?e/ q 9 ars, September 2 PICTURES