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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum By Heinrich Böll

McGraw-Hill, 140 pp., $7.95 Heinrich Böll is that interesting rarity among contemporary novelists, a writer who applies the lens of fiction to matters of morality in its widest sense. In The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, he considers the universal characteristics of popular journalism and how readily, given the right opportunity to exploit, its methods, inherently amoral, can become immoral.

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum By Heinrich Böll

McGraw-Hill, 140 pp., $7.95 Heinrich Böll is that interesting rarity among contemporary novelists, a writer who applies the lens of fiction to matters of morality in its widest sense. In The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, he considers the universal characteristics of popular journalism and how readily, given the right opportunity to exploit, its methods, inherently amoral, can become immoral.