Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Mar. 18, 1966

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GREENSTONE, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Maori and British-descended New Zealanders come together in a graceful parable of age and childhood, mysticism and reality, told with talent enough to create a subtle celebration of life.

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, by Kenneth Rexroth. With a cast of 1,000 people least likely to get into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded biography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

AUSTERLITZ, by Claude Manceron. The campaign that Napoleon always regarded as his tactical masterpiece is meticulously reconstructed hour by hour, from inception to final triumph over the combined armies of Austria and Russia.

THE NOWHERE CITY, by Alison Lurie. Because Novelist Lurie can make preposterous characters come alive, her tour of Los Angeles' gaudier unrealities is just—but just—worth the rubberneck fare.

MARQUIS DE SADE, SELECTED LETTERS, edited by Gilbert Lély. From prison and the lunatic asylum, the Marquis wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet, hoping that someone would understand. These letters make a human figure of the ogre whose actions and fantasies turned his name into an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure.

THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. A beauty, a wit, an essayist admired by Addison, a satirist who rivaled Pope, Lady Mary was also acclaimed the greatest of the great letter writers of the 18th century.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Source, Michener (1)

2. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (4)

3. The Double Image, MacInnes (3)

4. Those Who Love, Stone (2)

5. The Comedians, Greene (5)

6. The Lockwood Concern, O'Hara (7)

7. The Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton (8)

8. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (9)

9. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (6)

10. The Rabbi, Gordon (10)

NONFICTION

1. In Cold Blood, Capote (1)

2. A Thousand Days, Schlesinger (4)

3. The Proud Tower, Tuchman (3)

4. Games People Play, Berne (5)

5. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (7)

6. Kennedy, Sorensen (2)

7. The Last 100 Days, Toland (8)

8. The Penkovskiy Papers, Penkovskiy (9)

9. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (6)

10. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (10)