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Tuesday August 31, 1999 New York Times A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday August 29, 1999 New York Times Book Review Headlong by Michael Frayn Review by Randy Cohen Perlman's Ordeal by Brooks Hansen Review by Alice Truax Just Revenge by Alan M. Dershowitz Review by Adam Liptak Someone to Watch over Me: Stories by Richard Bausch Review by Lisa Zeidner The Kind I'm Likely to Get: A Collection by Ken Foster Review by Stephanie Zacharek The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal Review by Daniel Mendelsohn Sea of Memory by Erri De Luca Review by Lucy Ferriss Books in Brief: Makai by Kathleen Tyau Review by Julie Gray The Pledge by Rob Kean Review by Jon Garelick The End of the Class War by Catherine Brady Review by Jenifer Berman In the Family Way by Tommy Hays Review by Maud Casey Why She Left Us by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto Review by Sarah Saffian Washington Post Book World Everybody Smokes in Hell by John Ridley Review by Richard Lipez Just Revenge by Alan Dershowitz Review by Jonathan Groner The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney Review by Patricia Elam River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke Review by Holly Bass Philadelphia Inquirer Who's Irish by Gish Jen Review by Karen Heller While I Was Gone by Sue Miller Review by Jill P. Capuzzo San Francisco Chronicle Hunting Down Home by Jean McNeil Review by Mary Mackey Yellow Jack by Josh Russell Review by Seth Lobdell Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg Review by Sarah Coleman Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes Review by John Perry LA Times The Coming of the Night by John Rechy Review by Gary Indiana Everybody Smokes in Hell by John Ridley Review by Thoma Curwen What It Takes to Get to Vegas by Yxta Maya Murray Review by Cara Mia Di Massa Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Jonathan Levi Discoveries: Capture the Flag by Rebecca Chace The Last Life by Claire Messud Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Tuesday August 24, 1999 New York Times Headlong by Michael Frayn Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday August 22, 1999 New York Times Book Review Mr. Wroe's Virgins by Jane Rogers Review by Kathryn Harrison Expose by Laura Van Wormer Review by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu Tien-Wen Review by Peter Kurth Foreign Brides by Elena Lappin Review by Stephen Amidon The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nichols Rinaldi Review by Tom Drury A Stranger in the Earth by Marcel Theroux Review by David Willis McCullough When we Were Wolves: Stories by Jon Billman Review by Chris Solomon Books In Brief: Actual Air: Poems by David Berman Review by David Kirby Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman Review by Elizabeth Judd Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope Review by Linda Barret Osborne Who I Was Suppose To Be: Short Stories by Susan Perabo Review by Dana Kennedy Water Marked by Helen Elaine Lee Review by Katharine Whittemore O Careless Love: Stories and a Novella by Susan Dodd Review by Barbara Quick Washington Post Book World Mountain Time by Ivan Doig Review by Jonathan Yardley The Climate of the Country by Marnie Meuller Review by Mary Ishimoto Morris San Francisco Chronicle Local Girls by Alice Hoffman Review by Courtney Weaver Village of a Million Spirits by Ian MacMillan Review by Regina Weinreich The Pigskin Rabbi by Willard Manus Review by Sarah Coleman Billy and Girl by Deborah Levy Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu-Tien Po Man's Child by Marci Blackman Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke Review by John Perry Steps and Exes by Laura Kalpakian Review by Jennie Yabroff LA Times Zwilling's Dream by Ros Feld Review by Richard Howard St. Louis Post-Dispatch Season of Sun & Rain by Marjorie Dorner Review by Colleen Kelly Warren Hadrian's Walls by Robert Draper Review by Dale Singer Friday August 20, 1999 New York Times Run Catch Kiss by Amy Sohn Review by Richard Bernstein Washington Post Killing Me Softly by Nicci French Review by Carolyn See Thursday August 19, 1999 New York Times Foreign Brides by Elinor Lappin Review by Richard Eder Washington Post Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes Review by Georgia Jones-Davis Sunday August 15, 1999 New York Times Book Review What She Left Me: Stories and a Novella by Judy Doenges Review by Katherine Dieckmann Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? Stories by Elyse Gasco Review by Margot Livesy The Woman Who Cut Her Leg at the Maidstone Club: and other Stories by Julia Slavin Review by Charles Taylor My Father, Dancing: Stories by Bliss Broyard Review by Allegra Goodman My Date with Satan: Stories by Stacey Richter Review by Elizabeth Gleick Alice Springs by Nikki Gemmell Review by Elizabeth Braver Mountain Time by Ivan Doig Review by Bruce Barcott Books in Brief: Speak Rwanda by Julian R. Pierce Review by Kristin Eliasberg Hunting Down Amanda by Andrew Klavan Review by John D. Thomas Otherwise Engaged by Suzanne Finnamore Review by Sally Eckhoff The Sands of Sakkara by Glenn Meade Review by Jonathan Miles A Good Story and Other Stories by Donald E. Westlake Review by Andrea Higbie Washington Post Book World Cheaters by Eric Jerome Dickey Review by Yolanda Joe The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman Review by Joanne Omang The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melisa Bank My Father, Dancing by Bliss Broyard Review by Liesl Schillinger The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson Review by Michael Upchurch A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe Review by Opal Moore The Coming Storm by Paul Russell Review by Dennis Drabelle Philadelphia Inquirer Jem (and Sam) by Ferdinand Mount Review by David Delman San Francisco Chronicle Living for the City by Jervey Tervalon Review by Brian Schwartz Poachers by Tom Franklin Review by Cathryn Alpert The Physics of Sunset by Jane Vandenburgh Review by John Perry My Date with Satan by Stacey Richter Review by Laurel Rosen My Russian by Dierdre McNamer Review by David Wiegand LA Times The Experiment by John Darnton Review by Eugen Weber Discoveries: My Date with Satan by Stacey Richter The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg At the Maidstone Club by Julia Slavin Review by Susan Salter Reynolds St. Louis Post-Dispatch Seasons of Sun & Rain by Marjorie Dorner Review by Colleen Kelly Warren Hadrian's Walls by Robert Draper Review by Dale Singer Monday August 9, 1999 Known Dead by Donald Harstad Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday August 8, 1999 New York Times Book Review Capture the Flag by Rebecca Chace Review by Deborah Weisgall A Certain Age by Tama Janowitz Review by Henry Alford The Experiment by John Darnton Review by Colin Harrison The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin by Richard Lourie Review by Ken Kalfus Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates Review by D.T. Max Books in Brief: A Matter of Time by Shashi Deshpande Review by Maureen McLane The Life I Lead by Keith Banner Review by Peter Kurth Awaiting Grace by Roanne Daryl Thomas Review by Erica Sanders A Citizen of the World by Maclin Bocock Review by Joy Katz Sergeant Dickinson by Jerome Gold Review by Dwight Garner Washington Post Book World The Wonders of the Invisble World by David Gates How Animals Mate by Daniel Mueller Review by James Hynes Murder on the Gravy Train by Phyllis Richman Review by Katy Munger Philadelphia Inquirer The Prayer of the Bone by Paul Bryers Review by Peter Landry Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell Review by David Delman San Francisco Chronicle The Wonders of the Invisible World by David Gates Review by David L. Ulin The Redhunter by William F. Buckley Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio Murder in the Marais by Cara Black Review by Ellen McGarrahan Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton by J.P. Donleavy Review by Paul DiFilipo LA Times A Certain Age by Tama Janowitz Review by Phyllis Richardson Elegy for the Departure by Zbigniew Herbert Review by Jaroslaw Anders St. Louis Post-Dispatch Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss When We Were Wolves by Jon Billman Review by Ron Franscell The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman Review by Jamieson Spencer Friday August 6, 1999 New York Times The Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri Review by Michiko Kakutani Washington Post Syrup by Maxx Barry Review by Carolyn See Monday August 2, 1999 New York Times City of Light by Lauren Belfer Review by Christopher Lehmenn-Haupt St. Louis Post-Dispatch Prayer of the Bone by Paul Bryers Review by Mandy Davis The Weight of Dreams by Jonis Agee Review by Susan C. Thomson Sunday August 1, 1999 New York Times Book Review Italian Fever by Valerie Martin Review by Craig Seligman Open City: Seven Writers in Post War; edited by Willaim Weaver Review by Jay Parini The Palace by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran Review by David Willis McCullough River of Darkness by Rennie Aurth Review by Christopher Dickey Night Duty by Melitta Breznik Review by Suzanne Ruta The Anniversary: And Other Stories by Louis Auchincloss Review by Emily Barton Books in Brief: A Corner of the Veil by Laurence Cosse Review by Erik Burns Wrack by James Bradley Review by Janice P. Nimura The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft by Thomas M. Disch Review by Scott Sutherland Mrs. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott Review by Bruce Allen Breathing Water by T. Greenwood Review by Peter Khoury Washington Post Book World The Palace by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran Review by Robert Girardi England, England by Julian Barnes Review by Richard Tillinghast Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns Review by Chris Bohjalian The Extremes by Christopher Priest Review by Charles Platt Cityside by William Heffernan Review by Steve Weinberg San Francisco Chronicle Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Carey Harrison The Metaphysical Touch by Sylvia Brownrigg Review by Alison Baker Police and Thieves by Peter Plate Review by Jonah Raskin The Kind I'm Likely to Get by Ken Foster Review by David Wiegand The Oxygen Man by Steve Yarbrough Review by Paul Kafka Blues: For All the Changes by Nikki Giovanni Review by Kheven Lee LaGrone LA Times The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah Review by Paula L. Woods True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway Review by John Balzar First Fiction Wormwood by D. J. Levien Circling the Drain by Amanda Davis Run Catch Kiss by Amy Sohn 3 Dollars by Elliot Perlman L.A. Breakdown by Lou Mathews Review by Mark Rozzo St. Louis Post-Dispatch Italian Fever by Valerie Martin Review by Martha Baker From the Black Hills by Judy Troy Review by Colleen Kelly Warren California Fire and Life by Don Winslow Review by Dale Singer July List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site