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Tuesday, January 27, 1998
New York Times
Night Train by Martin Amis
Review by Michiko Kakutani.
""Night Train" is a virtuoso performance."
"Amis has created a quicksilver narrative that grabs the reader and
refuses to let go."
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Sunday, January 25, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Review by Sven Birkerts
Celebration by Harry Crews
Review by Karen Karbo
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Review by Lee Siegel
Flying Leap. Stories. by Judy Budnitz.
Review by J.D. Biersdorfer
Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman
Review by Laura Miller
Body Parts. Stories by Jere Joar.
Review by Tom Drury.
Books in Brief:
The Novellas of Hortense Calisher
Review by Erik Burns
Highways and Dancehalls by Diana Atkinson
Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
Tomorrrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
Review by Liam Callanan
Former Virgin by Cris Mazza
Review by Elizabeth Gaffney
The Villa Marini by Gloria Montero
Review by Ruth Coughlin
Lovers by Walter Keady
Review by Casey King.
Washington Post Bookworld
With Friends Like These by Nicholas Coleridge
Review by Carolyn Banks
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Review by Franklin Foer
Poetry:
Tender by Toi Derricotte
Review by Jabari Asim
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler
Review by Roland Kelts
The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima
Review by John Brumfield
Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson
Review by Steven Rea
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon
San Francisco Chronicle
The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
Review by Brian St. Pierre.
The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima
Review by Willaim Rodarmor.
Teeth by Hugh Gallagher
Review by Barbara Schultz.
LA Times
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Review by Richard Eder
The Deep Green Sea
by Robert Olen Butler Review by Susie Linfield
Night Train by Martin Amis Review by Jonathan Levi
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
Review by Gene Lichtenstein
Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
Review by Francine Prose
A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard
Review by Paula Friedman
The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
Review by Thomas Flanagan
The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima
Review by Scott Bradfield
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Thursday, January 22, 1998
New York Times
Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Tuesday, January 20, 1998
New York Times
Riven Rock by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Review by Michiko Kakutani.
Sunday, January 18, 1998
New York Times Book Review
A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard
Review by Lorna Sage.
Bad Chemistry by Gary Krist
Review by David Willis McCullough.
Visitors by Anita Brookner
Review by Jacqueline Carey.
Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
Review by William H. Pritchard.
Books in Brief:
The Mirror of Lida Sal by Miguel Angel Astorias
Review by James Polk.
Booth by David Robertson
Review by J.D. Biersdorfer.
A Dry Spell by Susan Moloney
Review by Kimberly B. Marlow.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories by Sharyn McCrumb
Review by Jack Sullivan.
The Old Religion by David Mamet
Review by Patrick Giles.
Bruiser by Richard House
Review by Steve Weinstein.
Washington Post BookWorld
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Review by Andrea Gollin.
Byrne by Anthony Burgess.
Lola by Tim McLaurin.
Review by Thomas M. Disch.
Prozac Highway by Persimmon Blackridge
Review by Jeannine DeLombard.
Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Books
Charming Biily by Alice McDermott
Review by Susan Miron.
Los Angeles Times
House Gun by Nadine Gordimer Review by Richard Eder
The Sky, the Stars, and the Wilderness by Rick Bass
Review by Thomas Curwen.
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Review by Kenneth Turan.
Boston Globe
The Serpentine Cave by Jill Paton Walsh.
Review by Robert Tylor.
San Francisco Chronicle
Night Train by Martin Amis
Review by Carey Harrison.
The Edge of Heaven by Marita Golden
Review by Linda Raymond.
Daughter of Joy by JoAnne Levy
Review by Karen Peterson Liberatore.
Railroad Schemes by Cecelia Holand
Review by Alix Madrigal.
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Thursday, January 15, 1998
New York Times.
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Reviewed by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
"The opening of Ian McEwan's new novel, "Enduring Love," is one of the
most compelling this reviewer has come across in years."
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Wednesday, January 14, 1998
Washington Post
Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman
Review by Jonathan Yardley.
"This clever, engaging first novel"
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Monday, January 12, 1998
Boston Globe
The World More or Less by Jean Rouaud
Review by David Mehegan.
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Sunday, January 11, 1998
New York times Book Review
Paradise By Toni Morrison
Review by Brooke Allen
"...Toni Morrison's complex and impressive new novel..."
The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler
Review by Dwight Garner
"...a slim, erotic and fable-like new novel that's set in modern-day
Ho Chi Minh City."
"the novel does not rank with Butler's best."
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott.
Review by Alida Becker
Bunny Modern by David Bowman
Review by Sarah Ferguson
Books in Brief
Railroad Schemes by Cecelia Holland
Review by Paula Friedman
Boondocking by Tricia Bauer
Review by Andrea Higbie
Last Trolley from Beethovenstaat by Grete Weil
Review by Martha Stone
Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band by Enrico Brizzi
Review by Christopher Atamian
Under the Red Flag by Ha Jin
Review by Peter Bricklebank
Night Letters by Robert Dessaix
Review by Patrick Farrell
Washington Post Bookworld
The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan
Review by Thomas Flanagan.
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Review by Carol Shields.
Tales from the Blue Archives by Lawrence Thornton
Review by Colm Toibin.
The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima. Translated from the Czech by A.G. Brain.
Review by Steven Moore.
The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore.
Review by Claire Messud.
Los Angeles Times
Paradise by Toni Morrison.Review by Richard Eder.
Eating Chinese Food by Mei Ng. Review by Heller McAlpin.
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Review by Richard Eder.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Review by Donald Newlove.
Paradise by Toni Morrison.
Review by Paula Friedman.
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan.
Review by Jim Gladstone.
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Friday, January 9, 1998.
New York Times
The World, More or Less by Jean Rouaud. Translated by Barbara Wright.
Review by Richard Bernstein.
Jean Rouaud...winner of the prestigious Goncourt Prize with his first
novel, translated into English as "Fields of Glory."
"The novel, superbly translated by Barbara Wright, is as richly
intense and unusual in its sensibility as Rouaud's previous work."
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Tuesday, January 6, 1998.
New York Times
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Review by Michiko Kakutani.
"Unfortunately, "Paradise" is everything that "Beloved" was not: it's
a heavy-handed, schematic piece of writing, thoroughly lacking in the
novelistic magic Ms. Morrison has wielded so effortlessly in the past.
It's a contrived, formulaic book that mechanically pits men against
women, old against young, the past against the present."
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Sunday Jan. 4, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History by Hans Konig
Review by William Ferguson.
In Another Place, Not Here by Dionne Brand.
Review by Catherine Bush.
"Brand, who has written several highly acclaimed volumes of poetry,
was born in Trinidad and has lived in Canada since 1970."
"Passionate in its attention to emotional nuance and visual
detail, "In Another Place, Not Here" weds beauty and a fierce
intelligence in a work that offers a syncretic and multiple sense of
place."
The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry
byJohn Ashbery
Review by Nicholas Jenkins.
Books in Brief:
Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson.
Review by J.D. Biersdorfer.
Don't Worry About the Kids by Jay Neugeboren.
Review by Dale Peck.
Magdalena the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger.
Review by Bill Christopherson.
Tropic of Orange by Kaaren Tei Yamashita.
Review by Janet Kaye.
AKA Jane by Maureen Tan
Review by David Murray.
The Profile Makers by Linda Bierds
Review by Scott Veale.
Washington Post Book World
Matters of Chance by Jeanette Haien
Review by Hilma Wolitzer
"This roomy novel of love, loss and survival is curiously and
delightfully old-fashioned."
Commanche Moon by Larry MacMurtry
Review by Noel Perrin.
"Comanche Moon is a considerable book. McMurtry lovers will not want
to miss it. For everybody else: optional."
The Ugliest House in the World by Peter Ho Davies.
Celibates and Other Lovers by Walter Keady.
Acid Plaid: New Scottish Writing. Edited by Harry Ritchie.
Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson.
Breakfast in Babylon by Emer Martin.
Reviewed by Jay Fernandez
Leonardo's Horse by R.M. Berry
Review by Steven Moore.
"Berry certainly brings the age alive in all its fetid glory."
"Berry's prose is as active as Leonardo's imagination, piling clause
upon clause and multiplying details as he tracks Leonardo's memories"
"...a postmodern novel..."
Los Angeles Times.
No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman. Review by Richard Eder.
Another City, Not My Own by Dominick Dunne.Review by Gary
Indiana.
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Monday December 29 1997.
Washinton Post
The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler.
Review by Rachel Pastan.
Correction on Sunday January 4, 1998.
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