DIDDY'S A DANDY Sliding Toward A Death Wish
Susan Sontag presents Diddy Harron a 33 year old advertising man, recently divorced, whose life unravels after a failed suicide attempt. He journeys to an upstate meeting, hallucinates a railroad death, hooks up with blind Hester, and returns to New York to descend into self destruction. The narrative blends inner thoughts and dreams, drawing mixed reader reactions.
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Susan Sontag
Farrar, Straus
Miss Sontag
Diddy Harron
Diddy
New York City
Hester
New York
Best Sellers List Echoes Diverse Paperback Mix
A long list of paperback titles spans genres from war and history to crime and humor. Notable authors include Knowles, Capote, Clavell, Greene, and McLuhan among many others, reflecting a wide market across fiction and non fiction.
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McLuhan and
Fiori
Perrault
Lane
Robbins
Capote
Michener
Spark
Clavell
Papa Hemingway
Fuller Menfreya
Holt Ecstacy
Lamarr
Yale Marrat
Rimmer
Costain
Greene
Books and Clock Drama Spotted in Stockholm Pageant
Publishers' Weekly lists fiction titles and non fiction works. A Stockholm pageant features St George rescuing a princess on a balcony as a dragon is slain and a tipsy porter opens the city gate.
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Stockholm
Sweden
St. George
Hig Page
They Went Overland They Went Overland STAGECOACH WEST
Ralph Moody Crowell reviews a detailed history of the stagecoach era from the 1840s to 1869. The book covers Concord coaches, California routes, postal subsidies, and key figures like William Russell, with gold rush, Pony Express, Wells Fargo, Indian conflicts, and highwaymen. It notes 42 illustrations and 7 maps but warns the dense detail may overwhelm casual readers.
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Moody
Concord
California
Sacramento
William Russell
Russell
Pikes’ Peak
Pony Express
Wells Fargo
Black Bart
Far West
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