The Boston Globe calls Adam's Task "A beautiful, wonderful book of the sort that permanently refreshes thought and feeling."

It is a practical book of the sort of lore you will need.

Nor does it convey the extraordinary variety of her source materials, which range from books and articles of the most recondite sort to the drawings done for her by clerical workers trying to express their frustration.

Next door at the stationer's, she purchased several blank, leather-bound books of the sort used for sketching and journals.

"Cutting Stone," Janet Burroway's seventh novel, initially appears to be a book of the first sort, but as the narrative progresses it becomes increasingly evident that what she has given us is historical fiction of considerably more ambition.

LEON R. KASS'S "Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity" is hardly a novel or a book of the sort nowadays called "literary nonfiction."

"I was expecting that my path would take me to writing either journalism of a different level," he said, "or books of the sort our family friend David Halberstam was writing."

Between the chair and Polly, and filling most of the middle of the room, was a big table piled with all sorts of things printed books, and books of the sort you write in, and ink bottles and pens and sealing-wax and a microscope.

IT used to be I read novels: westerns, mysteries, an occasional book of the sort that is pompously called serious.

On their right was a sort of divan about eight feet long, on the left, shelves holding a number of books of the sort seen in the Archives.