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NOVEMBER

Sunday November 29, 1998 New York Times Book Review Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge Review by Francine Prose Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot; a Tale by Mary Shelley Review by Marina Warner The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson Review by David Kelly East into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Review by Deborah Mason Books in Brief: Toward the Sun by Kent Nelson Review by Charles Salzberg Mary McGreevy by Walter Keady Review by Peter Bricklebank Purple Dots by Jim Lehrer Review by Charles Flowers Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo Review by Diane Cole Ruby by Ann Hood Review by Megan Harlan Washington Post Book World Wide Open by Nicola Barker Review by Rachel Hartigan Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Review by Michael Dirda The Conversion by Aharon Appelfeld Review by Beryl Lieff Benderly The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville Review by Elizabeth Hand Philadelphia Inquirer The End of a Family Story by Peter Nadas Review by Susan Miron Wooroloo by Frieda Hughes Review by Paula Friedman San Francisco Chronicle Gates of Fires by Steven Presfield Review by Michael Lind The Road Home by Jim Harrison Review by David Wiegand The Lost Land by Eavan Boland Review by Tom Clark Thirst by Ken Kalfus Review by Doug Millison LA Times Road-side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz Review by Richard Eder My Year in No-man's Bay by Peter Handke Review by William H. Gass Love is a Racket by John Ridley Review by Peter Lefcourt Discoveries Jungle Wedding by Joseph Clark Rara Avis by Jacqueline Bograd Under the Autumn Star by Knut Hamsun Friendly Fire by Kathryn Chetkovich Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale Reviews by Susan Salter Reynolds Tuesday November 24, 1998 Los Angeles Times The Catch by Kim Wozencraft Review by Susan Lydon Monday, November 23, 1998 Washington Post The Widow Killer by Pavel Kohout Review by Mort Rosenblum Sunday November 22, 1998 New York Times The Hours by Michael Cunningham Review by Michael Wood Armadillo by William Boyd Review by A.O. Scott Billy Dead by Lisa Reardon Review by Laura Jamison Eudora Welty: Complete Novels Review by James Olney The End of a Family Story by Peter Nadas Review by Ken Kalfus Central Square by George Packer Review by Rand Richards Cooper Books in Brief: The Same Embrace by Michael Lowenthal Review by Linda Barrett Osborne The Stillest Day by Josephine Hart Review by Carol Peace Robins Giving up America by Pearl Abraham Review by Maggie Garb Once Again for Thucydides by Peter Handke Review by Liam Callanan Shadow Wars by Clyde Farnsworth Review by Charles Salzberg Washington Post Book World Salt Water by Charles Simmons Review by Donna Rifkind The Hours by Michael Cunningham Review by Jameson Currier Divining Rod by Michael Knight Review by Carolyn Banks Eucalyptus by Murray bail Review by Jack Sullivan A Masterpiece of Revenge by J.J. Fiechter Review by Kunio Francis Tanabe LA Times T.C. Boyle Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle Review by Herbert Gold Discoveries: Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge The Storm by Frederick Buechner Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler The Book of Blam by Aleksandar Tisma Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Thursday November 19, 1998 Washington Post The Temple and the Stone by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris Review by Brian Jacomb Wednesday November 18, 1998 New York Times The Widow Killer by Pavel Kohout Review by Richard Bernstein Washington Post Big Government by Ev Ehrlich Review by Jonathan Yardley Tuesday November 17, 1998 New York Times Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth Review by Michiko Kakutani Washington Post Where the Rainbow Ends by Jameson Currier Review by Louis Bayard Sunday November 15, 1998 New York Times The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth Review by Iain Bamforth The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden Review by Michael Upchurch The River Warren by Kent Meyers Review by James Polk Blue Light by Walter Mosley Review by Mel Watkins Europa by Tim Parks Review by David Gates Books in Brief: A Life for a Life by Ernest Hill Review by Fran Handman No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson Review by Bill Kent Flora's Suitcase by Dalia Rabinovich Review by Betsy Groban Savage Life by James Rogers Review by Eils Lotozo Josanie's War by Karl H. Schlesier Review by Peter Bricklebank Turning Japanese by David Galef Review by Paula Friedman Washington Post Book World The Road Home by Jim Harrison Review by Wendy Smith Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen Review by Jay A. Fernandez Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge Review by Charles Wilson The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro Review by Greg Varner Philadelphia Inquirer The Rum Diary by Hunter Thompson Review by Terence Samuel San Francisco Chronicle A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe Review by David Kipen Wooroloo by Frieda Hughes Review by Cristina Nehring LA Times Autumn Sonata by Michael Cunningham Review by Richard Eder The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Thursday November 12, 1998 New York Times Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Tuesday November 10, 1998 New York Times Soft! by Rupert Thomson Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday November 9, 1998 New York Times The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Review by Richard Bernstein Washington Post Bing Crosby's Last Song by Lester Goran Review by Ambrose Clancy Sunday November 8, 1998 New York Times Book Review T.C. Boyle Stories: The Collected Storeis of T. Coraghessan Boyle Review by Jim Shepard The Road Home by Jim Harrison Review by Thomas McNamee A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe Review by Michael Lewis Ka by Roberto Calasso Review by Sunil Khilnani Triage by Scott Anderson Review by Christopher Dickey Books in Brief: All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver Review by David Yezzi The Road to the Island by Tom Hazuka Review by Charles Flowers A Masterpiece of Revenge by J.J. Fiechter Review by Liam Callanan Like Being Killed by Ellen Miller Review by Stephanie Zacharek The Higher Jazz by Edmund Wilson Review by David Walton The Book of Job: Translation, Introduction and Notes by Raymond P. Scheindlin Review by Andy Brumer Washington Post Book World Casanova in Love by Andrew Miller Review by Christina Del Sesto Red, White and Blue by Susan Isaacs Review by Mike Musgrove Ghost Town by Robert Coover Review by Marie Arana-Ward I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops by Hanan al-Shaykh Review by Catherine Cobham Philadelphia Inquirer The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro Review by Lionel Shriver Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas by William H. Gass Review by Athur J. Sabatini The Same Embrace by Michael Lowenthal Review by Kely McQuain Tivolem by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro Review by Vrinda Condillac San Francisco Chronicle Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades by Oakley Hall Review by David Bowman Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge Review by Michael Upchurch Blue Light by Walter Mosley Review by Paul Di Filippo Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Review by Michael Krasny LA Times A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe Review by Richard Eder Flights of Angels: Stories by Ellen Gilchrist Review by Merle Rubin The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson The Restrain of Beasts by Magnus Mills Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Friday November 6, 1998 Washington Post Purple Dots by Jim Lehrer Review by Carolyn See Tuesday November 4, 1998 New York Times Armadillo by William Boyd Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday November 1, 1998 New York Times Book Review The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro Review by Michael Gorra The Ladie from St. Petersburg: Three Novellas by Nina Berberova Review by Ken Kalfus Cartesian Sonata: and Other Novellas by William H. Gass Review by James Wood Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg Review by Robert Plunket Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet Review by Craig Seligman The Pagoda by Patricia Powell Review by Michael Pye Revere Beach Boulevard by Roland Merullo Review by Abby Frucht The Revisionist by Helen Schulman Review by Brian Morton Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Review by Mary Lefkowitz Books in Brief: A Song of Stone by Iain Banks Review by Margot Mifflin Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory Review by Betsy Groban Fiber by Rick Bass Review by Sally Eckoff Behind the Red Mist by Ho Anh Thai Review by Philip Gambone The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills Review by Anthony Bourdain Washington Post A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe Review by Jonathan Yardley Bag of Bones by Stephen King Review by Adam Manzmanian Philadelphia Inquirer The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Review by Georgia Jones-Davis Evening by Susan Minot Review by Karen Heller The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative of 19th-Century Hawaii by W. S. Merwin Review by David R. Slavitt San Francisco Chronicle The Rum Diary by Hunter Thompson Review by Zev Borow Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano Review by David Wiegand The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro Review by Georgia Jones-Davis Model Behavior by Jay McInerney Review by Steve Kettman LA Times The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera Review by Richard Eder The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Review by Phyllis Richardson First Fiction: The History of Our World Beyond the Wave by R.E. Klein The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada Stories From the Tube by Matthew Sharpe Billy Dead by Lisa Reardon Zachary's Wings by Rosemarie Robotham Review by Mark Rozzo October List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site