AH KING—Somerset Maugham—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Somerset Maugham is the fiction editor’s Santa Claus. His stones are intelligent but not highbrow, well-made but not wooden, readable but ...

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Christian Kracht’s book finds a narrator much like the author on a family- and history-haunted road trip with his mother.

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