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Fiction

The Second Coming Walker Percy (Seeker pp. 364, £6.95) Bethany Anita Mason (Hainish Hamilton pp. 219, £7.50) The Second Chance Alan Sillitoe (Cape pp. 224, £5.95) Once, at a......

Broadway Myths And Melodies

Charles Marowitz New York America is currently obsessed with mythology. Being a peculiarly American mythology, it is barely 50 years old. Its deities are Superman, Flash Gordon,......