Last September Titles: La Stupenda: A Biography of Joan Sutherland (Hutchinson, $19.95), by Brian Adams, is the life of the critically acclaimed but perhaps over-rated soprano. . . . My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Buñuel (Knopf, $15.95), posthumously published, is no better than his movies.
A. J. P. Taylor’s A Personal History (Atheneum, $14.95) is the life of the son of a Lancashire cotton merchant—born “without ambition”—who, he claims, owes his life to a chance lectureship in modern history.
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