Volume 3, Number 6 · November 5, 1964
Private Lives, Public Lives
By Frederick C. Crews
Unfinished Funeral
by Niccolo Tucci
Simon & Schuster, 192 pp., $3.95
Cabot Wright Begins
by James Purdy
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 228 pp., $4.95
Bad Characters
by Jean Stafford
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 276 pp., $4.95
Corridors of Power
by C.P. Snow
Scribners, 403 pp., $5.95
There is a prize in this grab bag of fiction: Niccolo Tucci's Unfinished Funeral. This will be no surprise to readers who admired Tucci's large novel about his forebears, Before My Time (1962), nor to those who have followed his stories in The New Yorker. But this beautifully wry new book is the best proof yet of a unique and masterful talent.
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