Television: Nov. 3, 1967

(4 of 4)

THE HEIR APPARENT, by William V. Shannon, examines the things that Bobby has going for and against him in his bid for the presidency, and concludes that there might be some formidable obstacles.

A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Oates. A haunting and painful Dreiserian story of a poor little girl who acquires everything except happiness.

A HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. One of the best first novels of the year deals with three characters on the periphery of vagrancy in New Orleans.

THE NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1, edited by Theodore Solotaroff. An exceptionally good anthology of recent writing —skilled, readable, varied.

O THE CHIMNEYS, by Nelly Sachs. At 75, Nelly Sachs, who lives in Sweden, writes in German, and was rescued from almost total obscurity by a 1966 Nobel Prize, appears as a powerful singer of the fate of the Jewish people.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Topaz, Uris (5 last week)

2. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (3)

3. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron

4. The Chosen, Potok (1)

5. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (7)

6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (2)

7. A Night of Watching, Arnold (6)

8. The Arrangement, Kazan (4)

9. A Second-Hand Life, Jackson

10. The Eighth Day, Wilder (9)

NONFICTION

1. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1)

2. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (3)

3. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (2)

4. Incredible Victory, Lord (6)

5. Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva (5)

6. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (4)

7. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (7)

8. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (9)

9. The Lawyers, Mayer (8)

10. Everything But Money, Levenson