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Be Sweetness: A Conditional Love Story
By ROY BLOUNT JR.
Reviewed by JOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS
"A wild tell-all, a raucous, unflinching memoir equally funny as annihilation [Blount has] always written, and that'due south saying a lot, since he's i of America's wittiest writers . . ."

Blood and Vengeance: 1 Family'south Story of the State of war in Bosnia
Past CHUCK SUDETIC
Reviewed by TOM GJELTEN
"Magnificent . . . A huge contribution to the literature of the Bosnian war."
Outset Chapter: 'Claret and Vengeance'

John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father
By JOHN WYSE JACKSON and PETER COSTELLO
Reviewed by TERENCE Brownish
"Given the difficulty of the task they set up themselves in this volume, Jackson and Costello take probably done too as could be expected . . ."
First Chapter: 'John Stanislaus Joyce'

Transport of Golden in the Deep Blue Sea
By GARY KINDER
Reviewed by JOHN MAXTONE-GRAHAM
"The author writes beautifully -- historical and technological reporting of a loftier lodge, equally suspenseful and deft almost the doomed steamer every bit the salvage vessels . . . A 24-carat sea classic."
Showtime Chapter: 'Ship of Gilt in the Deep Bluish Sea'

Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Girl
By ADELINE YEN MAH
Reviewed by LISA Encounter
"Mah's story is most a casebook study of the effects of long-term abuse, only she doesn't seem to accept the self-sensation to place it in this context . . . A scorching and bright account."
First Chapter: 'Falling Leaves'

Livin' in Joe's World: Unauthorized, Uncut, and Unreal
By JOE PATANE
Reviewed by RANDY COHEN
"He complains that [the producers of MTV's 'The Existent Earth'] manipulated its bandage, altering the chronology of events and staging entire sequences, including the first mean solar day at the beach house."

Inner Revolution: Life, Freedom, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness
By ROBERT THURMAN
Reviewed by PETER J. GOMES
"This book, both testimonial and invitational, addresses in a compelling if at times relentlessly optimistic statement the palpable desires of an exhausted culture eager to become on pilgrimage from 'me' to meaning."

Representative Mom: Balancing Budgets, Bill, and Baby in the U.S. Congress
By SUSAN MOLINARI with ELINOR BURKETT
Reviewed by ANDY LOGAN
"CBS News had asked her to become a news co-ballast, the kind of assignment that she insisted she had dreamed of all her life. She notes that goggle box is much harder than it looks."
Commencement Chapter: 'Representative Mom'

Pataki: An Autobiography
By GEORGE Due east. PATAKI with DANIEL PAISNER
Reviewed past ANDY LOGAN
"The book reads like a sunny campaign biography for whatever role he might exist running for, now or in the future."
First Chapter: 'Pataki'

And That'due south the Manner It Will Exist: News and Information in a Digital Globe
By CHRISTOPHER HARPER
Reviewed past SCOTT ROSENBERG
". . . a coincidental and haphazard survey . . . less a systematic report than a slapdash assemblage of the kind of information nuggets you lot might discover on a shoddy Spider web site . . ."
First Chapter: 'And That's the Way It Will Exist'

The Last Resort
By ALISON LURIE
Reviewed by FRANCINE PROSE
". . . [a] sparkling, smart new novel . . . Time has not blunted the sharpness of her observational powers -- or her impatience with arrogance, thoughtlessness and unwarranted excesses of self-esteem . . ."
Featured Author: Alison Lurie
Offset Chapter: 'The Last Resort'

Roxanna Slade
By REYNOLDS PRICE
Reviewed by JANET BURROWAY
". . . a novelist's version of millenial fever. We will see many characters taken through the 20th century every bit it draws to a close. . . . [K]whatsoever of these books will exist about women. 'Roxanna Slade' is not only an example but exemplary."
Featured Author: Reynolds Price
Outset Chapter: 'Roxanna Slade'

Missing Women and Others: Stories
By JUNE SPENCE
Reviewed past LAURA MILLER
"Spence has a canny eye and a pointed sense of humour that spikes through even the fairly conventional stories."
First Chapter: 'Missing Women and Others'

Bombay Ice
Past LESLIE FORBES
Reviewed by JAMIE JAMES
"An engrossing narrative, entertaining fifty-fifty when it meanders, and drenched with enough local colour to tint the saris for the most improvident Bollywood product number . . ."
Kickoff Chapter: 'Bombay Ice'

Cocaine Nights
By J. 1000. BALLARD
Reviewed by A. O. SCOTT
"'Cocaine Nights' feels like an episode of 'Columbo' reshot past bored graduate students in the style of 1 of those humorless, direct-to-video 'erotic thrillers.'"
Featured Author: J. G. Ballard
Commencement Chapter: 'Cocaine Nights'

The Dumb House: A Bedchamber Novel
By JOHN BURNSIDE
Reviewed by JAMES SAYNOR
"Refined, cerebral and depraved in such full measures that the reader is left with few conventional moral markers to concord onto . . . The writing has an icy fabulousness."
Start Chapter: 'The Dumb House'

Cupid and Diana
By CHRISTINA BARTOLOMEO
Reviewed past VALERIE FRANKEL
"Female readers may place with parts of Bartolomeo's kickoff novel, merely this is the story of one woman, non Everywoman, and that's all for the good . . ."

Vain Empires: Poems
By WILLIAM LOGAN
Reviewed by HENRY TAYLOR
"A brilliant, nearly cheerless collection."
Selections From 'Vain Empires'

Fear
By SIMON LANE
Reviewed by TOBIN HARSHAW
"Lane [is] a novelist with big ambitions for a slender premise."
First Chapter: 'Fear'

Quite a Yr for Plums
Past BAILEY WHITE
Reviewed by TOM DRURY
"An absorbing novel of life amid the restless and resilient inhabitants of a south Georgia town . . ."
First Chapter: 'Quite a Year for Plums'

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