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Hi, Hi, Miss American Pie

This is the world in microcosm, America perceived from the other end of the telescope. Reading it brought out the literary evangelist in me: Everyone must read this book!

Parents should give it to their kids, kids to their parents, girlfriends to their boyfriends. "Miss American Pie" isn't a portrait of adolescence, it is adolescence, with all the sorrows and yearnings and tenderness that attend that age. It's our youth served up to us once again on a golden plate.

Sunday in Book World


? Anita Shreve untangles a murder.

? Jeffrey Rosen urges judicial restraint.

? Tahir Shah remembers a plane crash.

? Keith Donohue discovers a changeling.

? Henry Ward Beecher gets famous.


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