Volume 8, Number 11 · June 15, 1967
The Professionals
By John Thompson
Washington, D.C.
by Gore Vidal
Little, Brown, 377 pp., $6.95
When She Was Good
by Philip Roth
Random House, 306 pp., $5.95
Go to the Widow-Maker
by James Jones
Delacorte, 618 pp., $7.50
Washington, D.C. is Gore Vidal's tenth novel. Go to the Widow-Maker is James Jones's fifth. When She Was Good is only Philip Roth's second, but he is young, and this book, with Letting Go and his volume of stories, Goodbye, Columbus, puts him in company with Jones and Vidal among the small group of novelists who are at once serious, prolific, and best sellers. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that novel writing is still a career that can be both honorable and profitable.
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