Recent and Readable

Recent & Readable

A WOMAN IN SUNSHINE--Frank Swinnerton -- Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Letitia, modern, wise and knowing, manages to keep her own impulsive family, her best friend's husband, and. even a murder under control throughout this facile but unconvincing domestic drama.

FACES IN A DUSTY PICTURE--Gerald Kersh--Whittlesey House ($2). Portraits of several members of a British regiment as they meet the enemy in North Africa. Plenty of good cursing, bad writing, and genuine emotion.

VOYAGE OF THE GOLDEN HIND--Edmund Gilllgan--Scribner ($2.50). Two rival captains on the same ship vie for fish and the girl they love amid well depicted seascapes. Better than average adventure-romance.

THE SMALL BACK ROOM--Nigel Balchin --Houghton Mlfflin ($2.50). In a British laboratory an introspective cripple pulls an unexploded bomb apart to prove he is a man. Fresh and realistic.

General

JOE, THE WOUNDED TENNIS PLAYER--Morton Thompson--Doubleday, Doran ($2). Wacky autobiographical musings by ex-columnist (now Staff Sergeant) Thompson--about his mother, his career, and his little brother who talked confidentially with horses.

PARTY LINE--Louise Baker--Whittlesey House ($2.50). Nostalgic glimpses of Mayfield, Calif, a generation ago show how Blossom Tramlin, the town menace, becomes the town heroine; how Miss Elmira stops a run on the bank by general blackmail. Soap opera sentiment and humor.

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