FIVE OUTSTANDING NOVELISTS
ALBERTO MORAVIA
"One of the best writers in
the world today,"-"Time." Author of "The Woman of Rome"
($3.50), "Two Adolescents" ($2.75), "Conjugal Love" ($2.75)
His latest novel:
The Con,formist
"One of the outstanding novels of 1951. ... He brings
to
light the
devil in the flesh and in the psyche, and he tell. us, without moral
indignation and without despair, that that is the way homo sapiens is."
-CHARLES ROLO,
The Atlantic $3.50
DESMOND STEWART
A brilliant new English writer
Leopard
in,
the Crass
A timely first novel of the Near East that vividly reflects the grandeur,
pathos and absurdities of its culture and illuminates present-day conflicts.
$3.00
STUART ENCSTRAND
author of "The Sling and the Arrow"
A Husband in the House
Well-known for the boldness and penetration of his psychological novels,
Mr. Engstrand here writes an engrossing drama of a father's com–
pulsive desire to wreck his daughter's marriage.
On sale Mar.
14
$3.00
CEORCES ARNAUD
A new and exciting talent from France
The Wages of Fear
A suspense-packed novel of desperate men in the Guatemalan oil fields.
Arnaud writes with the sensitivity of Saint-Exupery and the hard-boiled
violence of James Cain.
Second printing
$3.00
JACK DUNPHY
author of "John Fury"
Friends and Vague Lovers
A sharply etched and deeply sensitive novel of a homosexual coterie on
a Mediterranean island-a story of search and parting, and of the
mother-woman in their midst who find. her time of judgment.
On sale Mar.
19
$3.00
FARRAR; STRAUS AND YOUNG
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