Blaming

Elizabeth Taylor. Little, Brown Young Readers, $14.99 (201pp) ISBN 978-0-86068-777-1

This last novel by English novelist Taylor (1912-1975) blends gentle wit with sympathy in telling the story of a woman's adjustment to her husband's death. (Sept.)

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