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Sunday May 31, 1998 New York Times Book Review Ashe of Rings: And Other Writings by Mary Butts Review by Janet Byrne Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Review by Elizabeth Gleick Remote Feed by David Gilbert Review by Adam Goodheart An Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedges Review by Jen Nessel Herb's Pajamas by Abigail Thomas Review by Barbara Quick Leaving Small's Hotel by Eric Kraft Review by James Polk Vacation reading: List selected from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of December 1997 Washington Post Book World The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Review by John Crowley Identity by MIlan Kundera Review by Stephen Loch The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam Review by Guy Amirthanayagam The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton Review by Lelia Ruckenstein Philadelphia Inquirer The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer Review by James Held Medea: A Modern Retelling by Christa Wolf Identity by MIlan Kundera Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon San Francisco Chronicle Glorie by Caryn James Review by Jeanne Fay Aliens of Affection by Padgett Powell Review by Elizabeth Brunazzi LA Times The Treatment by Daniel Menaker Review by Richard Eder Now It's Time to Say Goodbye by Dale Peck Review by Celia McGee Freedomland by Richard Price Review by Jonathan Levi Thursday May 28, 1998 New York Times The Treatment by Daniel Menaker Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Washington Post The Venice Adriana by Ethan Mordden Review by David P. Tedhams Tuesday May 26, 1998 New York Times Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday May 25, 1998 New York Times How It All Began by Nikolai Bukharin Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday May 24, 1998 New York Times Book Rewiew Hemingway's Chair by Michael Palin Review by Bruce Webber A Widow for One Year by John Irving Review by William H. Pritchard Man or Mango? A Lament by Lucy Ellmann Review by Lisa Zeidner Ark Baby by Liz Jensen Review by Alida Becker Books in Brief: After Dunkirk by Milena McGraw Review by Barbara Fisher Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser Review by Scott Veale Grace: A Fictional Memoir by Robert Ward Review by Ruth Coughlin Children of God by Maria Doria Russell Review by Jim Gladstone Waiting for the Healer by Eamonn Sweeney Review by Erik Burns Blue Bossa by Bart Schneider Review by Lynn Karpen Washington Post Book World A Widow for One Year by John Irving Review by Barbara Kingsolver Loves That Bind by Julian Ross; Translated by Edith Grossman Review by Steven Moore Double Image by David Morrell Review by Carolyn Banks The Consul's Wife by W.T. Tyler Review by Sara Sklaroff Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy Review by Michael Dirda The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken Review by Jonathan Yardley Philadelphia Inquirer 1916; a Novel of the Irish Rebellion by Morgan Llywelyn Review by Desmond Ryan San Francisco Chronicle The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey Review by Brian Gunn About a Boy by Nick Hornby Review by James Sullivan The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by William Rodarmor Hemingway's Chair by Michael Palin Review by Carey Harrison Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Review by Wendy Lasser LA Times About a Boy by Nick Hornby Review by Richard Eder Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy Review by Jonathan Kirsch Sunday May 17, 1998 New York Times Book Review Summer at Gaglow by Esther Freud Review by Deborah Mason Identity by Milan Kundera Review by Robert Grudin Glorie by Caryn James Review by Richard Burgin The Everlasting story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Review by Robert McCrum Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy Review by Sara Mosle Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson Review by Liam Callanan God Bless the Child by Ellen Feldman Review by Laura Van Wormer Books in Brief: Flutie by Diane Glancy Review by Elizabeth Gaffney The Expert by Lee Gruenfeld Review by J.D. Biersdorfer Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig Review by David Walton They Are Ruining Ibiza by A.C. Greene Review by Allen Lincoln Blueback by Tim Winton Review by Patrick Giles The Crasher by Shirley Lord Review by Ruth Coughlin Washington Post Book World Chain of Custody by Harry Levy Review by Peter McCarthy The Hunt Club by Brett Lott Review by Drew Limsky The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich Review by Tamsin Todd Election by Tom Perrotta Review by Linton Weeks Philadelphia Inquirer Freedomland by Richard Price Review by Lionel Shriver One Thousand Chestnut Trees by Mira Stout Review by Peter Landry Writings by Gertrude Stien Review by Seymour I. Toll Summer Sisters by Judy Blume Review by Susan Campbell About a Boy by Nick Hornby Review by Dan DeLuca San Francisco Chronicle The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard Review by Georgia Jones-Davis Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann Review by Sarah Coleman Summer Sisters by Judy Blume Review by Linda Perkins Nosferatu by Jim Shepard Review by Theodore Roszak Silver City by Li Rui; Translated by Howard Goldblatt Review by Ada Mei Power by Linda Hogan Review by Jeanne DuPrau LA Times Damascus Gate by Robert Stone Review by Richard Eder Poems New and Collected: 1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska Review by Jaruslaw Anders A Widow for One Year by John Irving Review by Joan Mellen The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich Review by Thomas Curwin Thursday May 14, 1998 Glorie by Caryn James Review by Hilma Wolitzer Tuesday May 12, 1998 New York Times Freedomland by Richard Price Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday May 10, 1998 New York TImes Book Review The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser Review by Patrick McGrath Hourmaster by Christopher Bataille Review by Scott Bradfield The Coast of Good Intentions: Stories by Michael Byers Review by Craig Seligman The Healing by Gayl Jones Review by Valerie Sayers The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer Review by Deirdre McNamer Books in Review: Reflections of Loko Miwa by Lilas Desquiron Review by James Polk What She Knew by Peter Filkins Review by William Ferguson A Four-Sided Bed by Elizabeth Searle Review by Norah Vincent The Cockfighter by Frank Manley Review by David Murray Thorns of Truth by Eileen Goudge Review by Paula Friedman The Baker by Paul Hond Review by Michael Lowenthal Phildelphia Inquirer Damascus Gate by Robert Stone Review by Lisa Zeidner Fear by Simon Lane Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon The Rich Man's Table by Scott Spencer Review by Michael Harrington Washington Post Book World Remote Feed by David Gilbert Review by Mike Musgrove The Cockfighter by Frank Manley Review by Sudip Bose About a Boy by Nick Hornby Review by Jay A. Fernandez San Francisco Chronicle Just As I Thought by Grace Paley Review by Patricia Holt Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy Review by Carey Harrison Freedomland by Richard Price Review by Michael Berry Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Ellis Review by Rebecca Radner Leaving Small's Hotel by Eric Kraft Review by Michael Upchurch The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway Review by John Perry Loves That Bind by Julian Rios Review by William Rodamor LA Times The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Review by Richard Eder Friday May 8, 1998 LA Times Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Review by Merle Rubin Tuesday May 5, 1998 New York Times The Knife and Other Tales by Steven Millhauser Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday May 4, 1998 New York Times Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday May 3, 1998 New York Times Book Review Goodnight Nebraska by Tom McNeal Review by Albert Mobilio Lloyd: What Happened by Stanley Bing Review by Joe Queenan Writings by Gertrude Stein Review by Richard Howard Like a Hole in the Head by Jen Banbury Review by Brian Morton Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson Review by Ruth Padel Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh Review by Courtney Weaver The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte Review by Paul Baumann Books in Brief: This Time Last Year by Douglas Hobbie Review by Barbara Fisher Making History by Stephen Fry Review by Allen Lincoln The Creation of the Night Sky by Nicholas Christopher Review by Melanie Rehak Sari of the Gods by G.S. Sharat Chandra Review by David Masello All Saints by Kaaren Palmer Review by David Galef The Venice Adriana by Ethan Mordden Review by Bill Haines Washington Post Book World Damsacus Gate by Robert Stone Review by James Hynes A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler Review by Donna Rifkind Thrones, Dominions by Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh Review by Sarah Booth Conroy Quarantine by Jim Crace Review by Bruce Bawer Philadelphia Inquirer Sweet Machine: Poems by Mark Doty A Working Girl Can't Win by Deborah Garrison Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler: Poems by Thylias Moss Review by Daisy Freid Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland Review by Sarah Vowell San Francisco Chronicle A Widow for One Year by John Irving Review by Ruth Coughlin Blessing by Sheneska Jackson Review by Linda Raymond Damascus Gate by Robert Stone Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet The Story of My Disappearance by Paul Watkins Review by Carey Harrison Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai Review by Reena Jana The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser Review by Michael Upchurch The Rich Man's Table by Scott Spencer Review by Regan McMahon The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve Review by Rebecca Rather The Sinaloa Story by Barry Gifford Review by Robert Collier Friday May 1, 1998 La Times The Page Turner by David Leavitt Review by Michael Frank New York Times A Widow for One Year by John Irving Review by Michiko Kakutani April List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site