Selection of
the Year 1972 best books
Time
magazine January 1973
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A Selection of the Year’s (1972) Best Books
FICTION
(Μυθοπλασία):
THE LIONHEADS by Joshua Bunting.
A
novelized indictment of military ambition and callousness during one Viet Nam
battle, written by a 32-year-old former infantry major who served with the U.S.
Army in Southeast Asia,
THE LATE GREAT CREATURE by Brock Brower.
An oldtime
horror-movie actor attempts to refurbish the glories of the gothic and macabre
traditions in a time of cheap thrills.
THE SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES by John Gardner.
In the
finest novel of the year wisdom and magic turn a small American town into the
metaphysical crossroads of the modern world.
THE TEMPTATION OF JACK ORKNEY AND OTHER STORIES by
Doris Lessing.
The author
of The Golden Notebook moves with
keen intelligence over some of the major issues of our time.
EDWIN MULLHOUSE by Steven Millhauser.
This
skillful first novel is both a literary Nabokovian joke—about an 11-year-old
who writes the biography of a dead playmate—and an affecting memoir of
childhood.
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE STRANGERS by Lurry
McMurtry.
The elegiac,
funny and tender story of a 23-year-old writer whose small-town Texas life is
abruptly changed into a series of nostalgic leavetakings by sudden success.
TRANSPARENT THINGS by Vladimir Nabokov.
The great
novelist in a clever book about a publisher who strangles his wife while he is
asleep.
AUGUST 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Russia’s
defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg during World War I. Badly translated but
monumental.
THE CASE HISTORY OF COMRADE V hy James Park Sloan.
A government
scientist in the County of L ….. is accused
of a statistical error and persecuted by an enigmatic bureaucracy. Kafka with
mirrors.
THE OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty.
A muted
Southern tale about dying and surviving and what can be salvaged through
genteel memory and raw feeling.
NONFICTION
VIRGINIA WOOLF hy Ouentin Bell.
The novelists
nephew sees his famous aunt painfully forging a unique art despite an eccentric
family, madness, and the burden of being a woman.
JOURNEY TO IXTLAN hy Carlos
Castaneda.
The third and
best book about the wisdom and magic of the Yaqui Indian Sorcerer Don Juan
Matus.
MIGRANTS, SHARECROPPERS, MOUNTAINEERS and THE SOUTH
GOES NORTH by Robert Coles.
The second
and third volumes in a series by a Harvard sociologist who examines poor
Americans with love and squalor.
THE COMING OF AGE by Simone de
Beauvoir.
The
64-year-old author of The Second Sex
urges a revolution in values and behavior to provide for the old and improve
the society that tries to forget them.
FIRE IN THE LAKE by Frances FitzGerald.
Vietnamese
life seen in a historical context that makes the war seem more hopeless and
foolish than ever,
A CHILD CALLED NOAH by Joshi Greenfeld.
A father’s
account of caring for an autistic child, told with extraordinary tact, and a
quiet outrage against fate and the medical system.
THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST hy Duvid Halberstam.
In a series
of political profiles, the author tells how overconfidence helped lead to the
morass in Viet Nam.
POWER AND INNOCENCE by Rollo
May.
An eminent and eloquent psychoanalyst examines
people's need for power as a basis of self-respect.
THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE edifed by Robert Manson Myers.
More than
1,500 pages of letters written by members of a Southern plantation family from
the 1850s through the Civil War.
MIDNIGHT OIL by VS. Pritchett.
The second
installment of the celebrated British critic’s charming autobiography tells how
he became a writer and Parisian sophisticate during the 1920s.
Time
magazine, January 1, 1973, p. 62.
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