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Best Sellers From Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold/A Song of Sixpence/When the Cheering Stopped/Captain Newman, M.D.
Best Sellers From Reader's Digest Condensed Books The Spy Who Came in From the Cold/A Song of Sixpence/When the Cheering Stopped/Captain Newman MD Author:John le Carre', A. J. Cronin, Gene Smith and Leo Rosten The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John le Carre': — Here, skillfully condensed to preserve every twist of plot and every chill of mood, is the most talked about, best-selling espionage story to be published in many a year. The book critic of "Time" is one of many who have hailed this tale of cold-war double-dealing in London and East Berlin a... more »s "one of the best spy stories ever written."
A Song of Sixpence, by A. J. Cronin:
Laurence Carroll was a sensitive, warmhearted child, something of an outcast because his gay young parents were nonconformists in their straitlaced Scottish village. A. J. Cronin brings vivid memories of his own childhood and all of his storytelling magic to this account of a boy's struggle to find himself in a world peopled with colorful rogues and wonderfully eccentric friends.
When the Cheering Stopped, by Gene Smith:
This is a remarkable and moving account of an extraordinary episode in American history--President Woodrow Wilson's collapse after his return from the Versailles peace conference. Who ran the government while the President lay helpless? What was the role of his lovng, strong-willed wife? The dramatic story is unusually timely in the light of recent discussions of presidential disability. [J.F.K.'s assassination.]
Captain Newman, M.D., by Leo Rosten:
This strikingly original novel laid in the mental ward of an Air Force hospital is a rich mixture of comedy and compassion. With Captain Newman, the gently sardonic chief psychiatrist, and his unforgettable aides and patients you'll swing between hilarity and heartbreak in what the "New York Herald Tribune" has called "a book of great insight, warmth and humor."
Pretty good for age. Mended spine. Lightly yellowing. Jacket worn, book nice.« less